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Contemporary parallel diversification, antipredator adaptations and phenotypic integration in an aquatic isopod.
PloS one - 9 Jul 2009
Eroukhmanoff Fabrice, Svensson Erik I
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It is increasingly being recognized that predation can be a strong diversifying agent promoting ecological divergence. Adaptations against different predatory regimes can emerge over short periods of time and include many different traits. We studied antipredator adaptations in two ecotypes of an isopod (Asellus aquaticus) that have, diverged in parallel in two Swedish lakes over the last two decades. We...
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