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Thermal plasticity of growth and development varies adaptively among alternative developmental pathways.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2015
Kivelä Sami M, Svensson Beatrice, Tiwe Alma, Gotthard Karl
Abstract excerpt
Polyphenism, the expression of discrete alternative phenotypes, is often a consequence of a developmental switch. Physiological changes induced by a developmental switch potentially affect reaction norms, but the evolution and existence of alternative reaction norms remains poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that, in the butterfly Pieris napi (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), thermal reaction norms of several life...
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