Genetic variation underlies plastic responses to global change drivers in the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.

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Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution enable population persistence in response to global change. However, there are few experiments that test how these processes interact within and across generations, especially in marine species with broad distributions experiencing spatially and temporally variable temperature and pCO2. We employed a quantitative genetics experiment with the purple sea urchin,...

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• Carbon Dioxide
• Cold Temperature
• Genetic Variation
• Larva
• Sea Urchins