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Rapid shifts in multiple life history traits in a population of threespine stickleback.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Apr 2011
Baker J A, Heins D C, King R W, Foster S A
Abstract excerpt
Measurement of the rate of phenotypic or genetic change provides data bearing on many questions of fundamental interest to biologists, including how fast changes can proceed, whether shifts occur gradually or in bursts and how long high rates of change can be sustained. Because traits exist in functionally and genetically correlated suites, studies tracking many traits are likely to be the most informative. We...
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