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Standing Variation and the Capacity for Change: Are Endocrine Phenotypes More Variable Than Other Traits?
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Oct 2018
Miles Meredith C, Vitousek Maren N, Husak Jerry F, Johnson Michele A, Martin Lynn B, Taff Conor C, Zimmer Cedric, Lovern Matthew B, Fuxjager Matthew J
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Circulating steroid hormone levels exhibit high variation both within and between individuals, leading some to hypothesize that these phenotypes are more variable than other morphological, physiological, and behavioral traits. This should have profound implications for the evolution of steroid signaling systems, but few studies have examined how endocrine variation compares to that of other traits or differs...
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