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Resistance to oxidative stress shows low heritability and high common environmental variance in a wild bird.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2014
Losdat S, Helfenstein F, Blount J D, Richner H
Abstract excerpt
Oxidative stress was recently demonstrated to affect several fitness-related traits and is now well recognized to shape animal life-history evolution. However, very little is known about how much resistance to oxidative stress is determined by genetic and environmental effects and hence about its potential for evolution, especially in wild populations. In addition, our knowledge of phenotypic sexual dimorphism...
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