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Rapid evolutionary loss of metal resistance revealed by hatching decades-old eggs.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2016
Turko Patrick, Sigg Laura, Hollender Juliane, Spaak Piet
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the evolutionary response of an ecologically important freshwater crustacean, Daphnia, to a rapidly changing toxin environment. From the 1920s until the 1960s, the use of leaded gasoline caused the aquatic concentration of Pb to increase at least fivefold, presumably exerting rapid selective pressure on organisms for resistance. We predicted that Daphnia from this time of intense pollution would...
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