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Among-lake reciprocal transplants induce convergent expression of immune genes in threespine stickleback.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2015
Stutz William E, Schmerer Matthew, Coates Jessica L, Bolnick Daniel I
Abstract excerpt
Geographic variation in parasite communities can drive evolutionary divergence in host immune genes. However, biotic and abiotic environmental variation can also induce plastic differences in immune function among populations. At present, there is little information concerning the relative magnitudes of heritable vs. induced immune divergence in natural populations. We examined immune gene expression profiles of...
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