An estimation of the heritability of phototaxis in Daphnia magna Straus
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Oecologia
- Vol. 78 (1), 142-144
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00377210
Abstract
The phototactic responses of four clones of Daphnia magna were experimentally analysed. Broad-sense heritability of this behavioural character was estimated through an analysis of variance, and it was very high under the standardised experimental conditions of this study.Keywords
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