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Maintenance of clinal variation for shell colour phenotype in the flat periwinkle Littorina obtusata.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jul 2008

Phifer-Rixey M, Heckman M, Trussell G C, Schmidt P S

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Clines can signal spatially varying selection and therefore have long been used to investigate the role of environmental heterogeneity in maintaining genetic variation. However, clinal patterns alone are not sufficient to reject neutrality or to establish the mechanism of selection. Indirect, inf...

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PMID: 18507701
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01549.x

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