Article
Effects of Clonal Reproduction on Evolutionary Lag and Evolutionary Rescue.
The American naturalist - 1 Oct 2017
Orive Maria E, Barfield Michael, Fernandez Carlos, Holt Robert D
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary lag-the difference between mean and optimal phenotype in the current environment-is of keen interest in light of rapid environmental change. Many ecologically important organisms have life histories that include stage structure and both sexual and clonal reproduction, yet how stage structure and clonality interplay to govern a population's rate of evolution and evolutionary lag is unknown. Effects of...
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