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Environmental change, phenotypic plasticity, and genetic compensation.
The American naturalist - 1 Oct 2005
Grether Gregory F
Abstract excerpt
When a species encounters novel environmental conditions, some phenotypic characters may develop differently than in the ancestral environment. Most environmental perturbations of development are likely to reduce fitness, and thus selection would usually be expected to favor genetic changes that...
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