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Changes in behavioural trait integration following rapid ecotype divergence in an aquatic isopod.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2011
Harris S, Eroukhmanoff F, Green K K, Svensson E I, Pettersson L B
Abstract excerpt
Colonization of new habitats can relax selection pressures, and traits or trait combinations no longer selected for might become reduced or lost. We investigated behavioural differentiation and behavioural trait integration in the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus. This isopod has recently colonized a novel habitat and diverged into two ecotypes which encounter different predator faunas. We investigated...
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