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Inbreeding, developmental stabilty, and canalization in the sand cricket Gryllus firmus.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2003
Réale Denis, Roff Derek A
Abstract excerpt
Inbreeding, the mating of close relatives, is known to have deleterious effects on fitness traits in organisms. Developmental stability (DS) and canalization may represent two processes that allow an organism to maintain a stable development that will produce the fittest phenotype. Inbreeding is thus expected to affect either DS or canalization. We tested if inbreeding affects DS and canalization using an...
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