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Genetic specificity of a plant-insect food web: Implications for linking genetic variation to network complexity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Feb 2016
Barbour Matthew A, Fortuna Miguel A, Bascompte Jordi, Nicholson Joshua R, Julkunen-Tiitto Riitta, Jules Erik S, Crutsinger Gregory M
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Theory predicts that intraspecific genetic variation can increase the complexity of an ecological network. To date, however, we are lacking empirical knowledge of the extent to which genetic variation determines the assembly of ecological networks, as well as how the gain or loss of genetic variation will affect network structure. To address this knowledge gap, we used a common garden experiment to quantify the...
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