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The ultimate and proximate mechanisms driving the evolution of long tails in forest deer mice.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2017
Kingsley Evan P, Kozak Krzysztof M, Pfeifer Susanne P, Yang Dou-Shuan, Hoekstra Hopi E
Abstract excerpt
Understanding both the role of selection in driving phenotypic change and its underlying genetic basis remain major challenges in evolutionary biology. Here, we use modern tools to revisit a classic system of local adaptation in the North American deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, which occupies two main habitat types: prairie and forest. Using historical collections, we find that forest-dwelling mice have...
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