Strong phenotypic plasticity limits potential for evolutionary responses to climate change
Phenotypic plasticity—the ability to express multiple phenotypes from the same genome—is a widespread adaptation to environmental variability. Here, Oostra et al analyze transcriptomes of an African butterfly with distinct seasonal phenotypes, and observe lack of variation for plasticity, limiting p...
Main Authors: | Vicencio Oostra, Marjo Saastamoinen, Bas J. Zwaan, Christopher W. Wheat |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2018-03-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03384-9 |
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