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Rapid contemporary evolution and clonal food web dynamics.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 12 Jun 2009
Jones Laura E, Becks Lutz, Ellner Stephen P, Hairston Nelson G, Yoshida Takehito, Fussmann Gregor F
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Character evolution that affects ecological community interactions often occurs contemporaneously with temporal changes in population size, potentially altering the very nature of those dynamics. Such eco-evolutionary processes may be most readily explored in systems with short generations and simple genetics. Asexual and cyclically parthenogenetic organisms such as microalgae, cladocerans and rotifers, which...
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