Natural selection and the heritability of fitness components

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Heredity

• Publication date

  1987-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/hdy.1987.113PMID 3316130
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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