MULTIVARIATE QUANTITATIVE GENETICS AND THE LEK PARADOX

这项研究计划有可能改变进化生物学家看待选择如何改变遗传方差和协方差的可用模式的方式。特别是，它将强调这样一种可能性，即多性状系统中缺乏遗传差异可能是限制对选择的反应的重要机制。因此，它解决了数量遗传学中的一个基本问题，这个问题是进化和农业中选择限制的基础。

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.