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Adaptive basis of geographic variation: genetic, phenotypic and environmental differences among beach mouse populations.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Nov 2009
Mullen Lynne M, Vignieri Sacha N, Gore Jeffery A, Hoekstra Hopi E
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A major goal in evolutionary biology is to understand how and why populations differentiate, both genetically and phenotypically, as they invade a novel habitat. A classical example of adaptation is the pale colour of beach mice, relative to their dark mainland ancestors, which colonized the isolated sandy dunes and barrier islands on Florida's Gulf Coast. However, much less is known about differentiation among...
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