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Prey evolution on the time scale of predator-prey dynamics revealed by allele-specific quantitative PCR.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Jul 2006
Meyer Justin R, Ellner Stephen P, Hairston Nelson G, Jones Laura E, Yoshida Takehito
Abstract excerpt
Using rotifer-algal microcosms, we tracked rapid evolution resulting from temporally changing natural selection in ecological predator-prey dynamics. We previously demonstrated that predator-prey oscillations in rotifer-algal laboratory microcosms are qualitatively altered by the presence of genetic variation within the prey. In that study, changes in algal gene frequencies were inferred from their effects on...
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