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Ecological adaptation in European eels is based on phenotypic plasticity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Jan 2021
Enbody Erik D, Pettersson Mats E, Sprehn C Grace, Palm Stefan, Wickström Håkan, Andersson Leif
Abstract excerpt
The relative role of genetic adaptation and phenotypic plasticity is of fundamental importance in evolutionary ecology [M. J. West-Eberhard, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102 (suppl. 1), 6543-6549 (2005)]. European eels have a complex life cycle, including transitions between life stages across ecological conditions in the Sargasso Sea, where spawning occurs, and those in brackish and freshwater bodies from...
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