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Climate-driven range expansion and morphological evolution in a marine gastropod.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jun 2001
Hellberg M E, Balch D P, Roy K
Abstract excerpt
Little is known about the phenotypic consequences of global climate change, despite the excellent Pleistocene fossil record of many taxa. We used morphological measurements from extant and Pleistocene populations of a marine gastropod (Acanthinucella spirata) in conjunction with mitochondrial DNA sequence variation from living populations to determine how populations responded phenotypically to Pleistocene...
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