The fitness costs of adaptation via phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects

1. Phenotypes are often environmentally dependent, which requires organisms to track environmental change. The challenge for organisms is to construct phenotypes using the most accurate environmental cue. 2. Here, we use a quantitative genetic model of adaptation by additive genetic variance, within...

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Main Authors: Ezard, Thomas H.G (Author), Prizak, Roshan (Author), Hoyle, Rebecca B. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014-06.
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