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Mild Warming Induces Divergent Plastic Responses in Gene Expression Among Populations of a Temperate Butterfly.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2026
Verspagen N, Frapin M, Das Roy R, Mäkinen H, Saastamoinen M, DiLeo M F
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In response to potentially stressful conditions, for example due to climate change, organisms can move, adjust through phenotypic plasticity and evolve. Evolution can act on mean trait values, or on plasticity itself. Whether phenotypic plasticity, evolution, or evolution of plasticity is the dominant response to environmental change is still subject to debate. Representing a close link between genotype and...
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