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Keystone Genes.
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 Sept 2018
Skovmand Lotte H, Xu Charles C Y, Servedio Maria R, Nosil Patrik, Barrett Rowan D H, Hendry Andrew P
Abstract excerpt
The keystone species concept is used in ecology to describe individual species with disproportionately large effects on their communities. We extend this idea to the level of genes with disproportionately large effects on ecological processes. Such 'keystone genes' (KGs) would underlie traits involved in species interactions or causing critical biotic and/or abiotic changes that influence emergent community and...
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