Study of the role of selection history on the association between developmental instability and stress and fitness: habitat islands as model system.

With this project we aim at disentangling the role of (recent) selection pressures and evolutionary response on the levels of DI and its sensitivity as a measure of stress and fitness. We will compare patterns between traits that are under stabilizing selection and under recent or more ancient directional selection.

Keywords:ANIMAL ECOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Disciplines:Animal biology, Veterinary medicine

Project type:Collaboration project