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Heritability of heat tolerance in a small livebearing fish, Heterandria formosa.
Ecotoxicology (London, England) - 1 May 2011
Doyle Cathleen M, Leberg Paul L, Klerks Paul L
Abstract excerpt
Climate change is expected to result in an increased occurrence of heat stress. The long-term population-level impact of this stress would be lessened in populations able to genetically adapt to higher temperatures. Adaptation requires the presence of genetically-based variation. At-risk populations may undergo strong declines in population size that lower the amount of genetic variation. The objectives of this...
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