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Changes in selection regime cause loss of phenotypic plasticity in planktonic freshwater copepods.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Sereda Sergej Vital'evič, Wilke Thomas, Schultheiß Roland
Abstract excerpt
Rapid phenotypic adaptation is critical for populations facing environmental changes and can be facilitated by phenotypic plasticity in the selected traits. Whereas recurrent environmental fluctuations can favour the maintenance or de novo evolution of plasticity, strong selection is hypothesized...
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