Heritability and adaptive phenotypic plasticity of adult body size in the mosquito Aedes aegypti with implications for dengue vector competence.

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Adaptive phenotypic plasticity is particularly important to organisms with developmental cycles that undergo ontogenetic niche shifts that differentially subject individual life stages to heterogeneous and often stressful environmental conditions. The yellow fever and dengue fever vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti, typically breeds in small water-filled containers that expose the developing aquatic larvae to...

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