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Genotype-dependent recovery from acute exposure to heavy metal contamination in the freshwater clam Sphaerium novaezelandiae.
Aquatic toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 15 Sept 2010
Phillips N R, Hickey C W
Abstract excerpt
The ability to recover from environmental perturbations is essential for the sustainability of ecological systems. Variation in the ability of individual organisms to recover from stressors influences overall resilience at higher levels of biological organisation. Such variation is likely to be genetically based. To investigate this hypothesis we examined the genetic basis of both resistance to and recovery from...
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