Environmental variation and phenotypic plasticity : The effect of water visibility on body pigmentation in perch (Perca fluviatilis L.)
Phenotypic plasticity is defined as an organism’s ability to express differentphenotypes depending on the environment. Predation is one of the key forces inecology and can indirectly cause a change of the phenotype in fish populations.Pigmentation change in order to match the background is one type...
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Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning
2010
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-136956 |