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Increasing melanism along a latitudinal gradient in a widespread amphibian: local adaptation, ontogenic or environmental plasticity?

BMC evolutionary biology - 21 Oct 2010

Alho Jussi S, Herczeg Gábor, Söderman Fredrik, Laurila Anssi, Jönsson K Ingemar, Merilä Juha

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BACKGROUND: The thermal benefits of melanism in ectothermic animals are widely recognized, but relatively little is known about population differentiation in the degree of melanism along thermal gradients, and the relative contributions of genetic vs. environmental components into the level of melanism expressed. We investigated variation in the degree of melanism in the common frog (Rana temporaria; an active...

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PMID: 20964816
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-317
PMCID: PMC2978224

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