Adapting to winter in wheat: a long-term study follows parallel phenotypic and genetic changes in three experimental wheat populations.

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Drawing a direct connection between adaptive evolution at the phenotypic level and underlying genetic factors has long been a major goal of evolutionary biologists, but the genetic characterization of adaptive traits in natural populations is notoriously difficult. The study of evolution in experimental populations offers some help - initial conditions are known and changes can be tracked for extended periods...

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