Evolutionary significance of phenotypic accommodation in novel environments: an empirical test of the Baldwin effect.

doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0285

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Evolutionary significance of phenotypic accommodation in novel environments: an empirical test of the Baldwin effect.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 27 Apr 2009

Badyaev Alexander V

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When faced with changing environments, organisms rapidly mount physiological and behavioural responses, accommodating new environmental inputs in their functioning. The ubiquity of this process contrasts with our ignorance of its evolutionary significance: whereas within-generation accommodation of novel external inputs has clear fitness consequences, current evolutionary theory cannot easily link functional...

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Acclimatization
Adaptation, Physiological
Animals
Body Size
Climate
Environment
Evolution, Molecular
Female
Finches
Genetic Variation
Male

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Maternal Behavior

Models, Genetic

Phenotype

Selection, Genetic

Sex Characteristics

United States

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PMID: 19324617
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0285
PMCID: PMC2666683

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