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Complex phenotype-environment associations revealed in an East African cyprinid.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 May 2007
Langerhans R B, Chapman L J, Dewitt T J
Abstract excerpt
Environmental factors influence phenotypes directly, as well as indirectly via trait correlations and interactions with other environmental variables. Using nine populations of the African cyprinid Barbus neumayeri, we employed path analysis to examine direct, indirect and total effects of two environmental variables, water flow (WF) and dissolved oxygen (DO), on several morphological traits. WF and DO directly...
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