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Are adaptation costs necessary to build up a local adaptation pattern?
BMC evolutionary biology - 3 Aug 2009
Magalhães Sara, Blanchet Elodie, Egas Martijn, Olivieri Isabelle
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BACKGROUND: Ecological specialization is pervasive in phytophagous arthropods. In such specialization mode, limits to host range are imposed by trade-offs preventing adaptation to several hosts. The occurrence of such trade-offs is inferred by a pattern of local adaptation, i.e., a negative corre...
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