Measuring and comparing evolvability and constraint in multivariate characters

By Thomas F. Hansen, David Houle. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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The pleiotropic structure of the genotype–phenotype map: the evolvability of complex organisms (2011, background): “, and evolvability depends only on genetic co-variance rather than pleiotropy per se”
Measuring Morphological Integration Using Eigenvalue Variance (2009, methodology): “Therefore the covariance matrix is often considered more relevant for evolutionary studies (Hansen and Houle 2008; Kirkpatrick 2008).”
Behavioral syndromes as evolutionary constraints (2013, methodology): “First, differences between traits in genetic variances alone will lead to an estimate of autonomy below 1, even if all covariances are exactly zero (Hansen and Houle 2008).”
Integration and Evolvability in Primate Hands and Feet (2009, methodology): “Testing these hypotheses within a quantitative genetics framework ideally requires knowledge of additive genetic variances and covariances among autopod traits (Lande 1979; Hansen and Houle 2008), but such data are difficult to obtain.”
The Evolution of Modularity in the Mammalian Skull I: Morphological Integration Patterns and Magnitudes (2009, background): “…groups have exactly the same inter-trait relationships, but differ significantly in the intensity of how these traits are connected (magnitude of integration), their response to evolutionary forces, like natural selection, could be strikingly different (Hansen and Houle 2008; Marroig et al. 2008).”
Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory (2010, background): “of the genetic response to selection in any phenotypic direction [24,25].”
The Evolution of Modularity in the Mammalian Skull II: Evolutionary Consequences (2009, methodology): “Evolvability can be defined as the ability of a population or species to respond to selection (Hansen 2003) or, more precisely, it is the ability of a given species to evolve in the direction of selection (Hansen and Houle 2008).”
Heritability is not Evolvability (2011, background): “…evolvability and related concepts such as modularity and integration (Blows et al. 2004; Mitteroecker and Bookstein 2007, 2009; Wagner et al. 2007; Hansen and Houle 2008; Stinchcombe et al. 2008; Agrawal and Stinchcombe 2009; Gomulkiewicz and Houle 2009; Hallgrimsson et al. 2009; Kirkpatrick…”
Constraints Evolve: Context Dependency of Gene Effects Allows Evolution of Pleiotropy (2015, background): “As the joint evolution of multiple traits has become better conceptually delineated and more technically accessible over the past 50 years (Hansen & Houle 2008, Lande 1979, Riedl 1978), Darwin’s idea of correlation of growth (Darwin 1859) has played an increasingly important role in evolutionary…”