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The scale of local adaptation in Mimulus guttatus: comparing life history races, ecotypes, and populations.
The New phytologist - 1 Jul 2016
DeMarche Megan L, Kay Kathleen M, Angert Amy L
Abstract excerpt
Fitness trade-offs between environments are central to the evolution of biodiversity. Although transplant studies often document fitness trade-offs consistent with local adaptation (LA), many have also found an advantage of foreign genotypes (foreign advantage (FA)). Understanding the mechanisms driving the magnitude and distribution of fitness variation requires comparative approaches that test the ecological...
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