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Characterizing selection on phenotypic plasticity in response to natural environmental heterogeneity.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2010
Baythavong Brooke S, Stanton Maureen L
Abstract excerpt
Adaptive genetic differentiation and adaptive phenotypic plasticity can increase the fitness of plant lineages in heterogeneous environments. We examine the relative importance of genetic differentiation and plasticity in determining the fitness of the annual plant, Erodium cicutarium, in a serpentine grassland in California. Previous work demonstrated that the serpentine sites within this mosaic display stronger...
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