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Extensive cross-environment fitness variation lies along few axes of genetic variation in the model alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2015
Malcom Jacob W, Hernandez Kyle M, Likos Raquel, Wayne Tierney, Leibold Mathew A, Juenger Thomas E
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Variation is essential to ecological and evolutionary dynamics, but genetic variation of quantitative traits may be concentrated in a limited number of dimensions, constraining ecoevolutionary dynamics. We describe high-dimension variation in natural accessions of the model alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and test the hypothesis that extensive fitness variation across 30 environments is constrained to a small...
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