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Genetic change for earlier migration timing in a pink salmon population.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Sept 2012
Kovach Ryan P, Gharrett Anthony J, Tallmon David A
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To predict how climate change will influence populations, it is necessary to understand the mechanisms, particularly microevolution and phenotypic plasticity, that allow populations to persist in novel environmental conditions. Although evidence for climate-induced phenotypic change in populations is widespread, evidence documenting that these phenotypic changes are due to microevolution is exceedingly rare. In...
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