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Adaptive plasticity in the mouse mandible.
BMC evolutionary biology - 18 Apr 2014
Anderson Philip S L, Renaud Sabrina, Rayfield Emily J
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BACKGROUND: Plasticity, i.e. non-heritable morphological variation, enables organisms to modify the shape of their skeletal tissues in response to varying environmental stimuli. Plastic variation may also allow individuals to survive in the face of new environmental conditions, enabling the evolution of heritable adaptive traits. However, it is uncertain whether such a plastic response of morphology constitutes...
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