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Evolution of growth by genetic accommodation in Icelandic freshwater stickleback.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Dec 2013
Robinson Beren W
Abstract excerpt
Classical Darwinian adaptation to a change in environment can ensue when selection favours beneficial genetic variation. How plastic trait responses to new conditions affect this process depends on how plasticity reveals to selection the influence of genotype on phenotype. Genetic accommodation theory predicts that evolutionary rate may sharply increase when a new environment induces plastic responses and selects...
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