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The relationship between phenotypic and environmental variation: do physiological responses reduce interindividual differences?
Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ - 1 Jan 2000
Oleksiak Marjorie F, Crawford Douglas L
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What is the effect of a variable environment on phenotypic variation? Does the physiological response to a new environment increase or decrease the differences among individuals? We provide a speculative hypothesis suggesting that the induction of a physiological response to environmental change minimizes phenotypic differences among individuals in outbred genetically variable populations. Although this...
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