title: Quantitative genetic approaches to evolutionary constraint: how useful?
abstract: The study of evolutionary constraint is an active and important area, and genetic correlations and quantitative genetic techniques more generally have been the dominant approach to constraint. Here, I argue that genetic correlations are not very useful for studying constraint, review recent alternative approaches, and briefly discuss the state of our knowledge of the evolutionary importance of constraints caused by genetic variance and covariance.
authors.affiliation: Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, 3700 East Gull Lake Drive, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060, USA. connerj@msu.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Conner
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D056084:Genetic Fitness; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010641:Phenotype; D012641:Selection, Genetic