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Variation in natural selection for growth and phlorotannins in the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jul 2004
Jormalainen V, Honkanen T
Abstract excerpt
Directional selection for plant traits associated with resistance to herbivory tends to eliminate genetic variation in such traits. On the other hand, balancing selection arising from trade-offs between resistance and growth or spatially variable selection acts against the elimination of genetic variation. We explore both the amount of genetic variation and variability of natural selection for growth and...
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