Genetic variability predicts common frog (Rana temporaria) size at metamorphosis in the wild.

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We investigated associations between genetic variability and two fitness-related traits--size and age at metamorphosis--in two subartic populations of the common frog, Rana temporaria. We found that metamorphic size was positively correlated with individual heterozygosity (as estimated using eight microsatellite loci) and that maternal heterozygosity also explained a significant amount of variation in this trait....

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