MULTIVARIATE QUANTITATIVE GENETICS AND THE LEK PARADOX [ 2005-01-01 - 2009-12-31 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: A/Prof Mark Blows (Chief Investigator) ,  Associate Professor Katrina McGuigan (Postdoctoral Fellow) ,  Associate Professor Katrina McGuigan (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Brief description MULTIVARIATE QUANTITATIVE GENETICS AND THE LEK PARADOX. This research program as the potential to change the way evolutionary biologists view how selection changes the available patterns of genetic variance and covariance. In particular, it will highlight the possibility that a lack of genetic variance in multi-trait systems may be an important mechanism that limits the response to selection. It is therefore addresses a fundamental problem in quantitative genetics that underlies selection limits in evolution and agriculture.

Funding Amount $370,000

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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