Threshold traits (Roff-Falconer liability model)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Evolutionary Developmental Biology subtree

Roff 1996 / Falconer 1989: discontinuous traits (winged/wingless, sexual/asexual) determined by underlying continuous liability X with threshold τ — phenotype is high if X > τ. Quantitative-genetics framework yields…

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