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Genetic approaches in comparative and evolutionary physiology.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Aug 2015
Storz Jay F, Bridgham Jamie T, Kelly Scott A, Garland Theodore
Abstract excerpt
Whole animal physiological performance is highly polygenic and highly plastic, and the same is generally true for the many subordinate traits that underlie performance capacities. Quantitative genetics, therefore, provides an appropriate framework for the analysis of physiological phenotypes and can be used to infer the microevolutionary processes that have shaped patterns of trait variation within and among...
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