Maintenance of Variation and Adaptive Consequences of Encrusting Growth Forms in the Clonal Hydroid Genus Hydractinia
Traits with close ties to fitness are central in understanding the process of adaptation and whether, and in what contexts, selection acts to erode genetically based phenotypic variation. The persistence and even predominance of apparently unfit genotypes in natural populations is particularly probl...
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Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-4473 |