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Local adaptation despite high gene flow in the waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2015
Moody K N, Hunter S N, Childress M J, Blob R W, Schoenfuss H L, Blum M J, Ptacek M B
Abstract excerpt
Environmental heterogeneity can promote the emergence of locally adapted phenotypes among subpopulations of a species, whereas gene flow can result in phenotypic and genotypic homogenization. For organisms like amphidromous fishes that change habitats during their life history, the balance between selection and migration can shift through ontogeny, making the likelihood of local adaptation difficult to predict....
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