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Phenotypic integration in the feeding system of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus).
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2015
Margres Mark J, Wray Kenneth P, Seavy Margaret, McGivern James J, Sanader Dragana, Rokyta Darin R
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Selection can vary geographically across environments and temporally over the lifetime of an individual. Unlike geographic contexts, where different selective regimes can act on different alleles, age-specific selection is constrained to act on the same genome by altering age-specific expression. Snake venoms are exceptional traits for studying ontogeny because toxin expression variation directly changes the...
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