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Gene flow does not prevent personality and morphological differentiation between two blue tit populations.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Aug 2018
Dubuc-Messier Gabrielle, Caro Samuel P, Perrier Charles, van Oers Kees, Réale Denis, Charmantier Anne
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Understanding the causes and consequences of population phenotypic divergence is a central goal in ecology and evolution. Phenotypic divergence among populations can result from genetic divergence, phenotypic plasticity or a combination of the two. However, few studies have deciphered these mechanisms for populations geographically close and connected by gene flow, especially in the case of personality traits. In...
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