Article
Phenotypic plasticity in evolutionary rescue experiments.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 19 Jan 2013
Chevin Luis-Miguel, Gallet Romain, Gomulkiewicz Richard, Holt Robert D, Fellous Simon
Abstract excerpt
Population persistence in a new and stressful environment can be influenced by the plastic phenotypic responses of individuals to this environment, and by the genetic evolution of plasticity itself. This process has recently been investigated theoretically, but testing the quantitative predictions in the wild is challenging because (i) there are usually not enough population replicates to deal with the...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Bacteria
- Biological Evolution
- Competitive Behavior
- Environment
- Extinction, Biological
- Genetic Fitness
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Plants
- Population Density
- Population Dynamics
- Selection, Genetic