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Perplexing effects of phenotypic plasticity

Juha Merilä ()
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Juha Merilä: University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.

Nature, 2015, vol. 525, issue 7569, 326-327

Abstract: Research on guppies provides evidence that phenotypic plasticity — an organism's ability to alter its characteristics in response to changes in the environment — can both constrain and facilitate adaptive evolution. See Letter p.372

Date: 2015
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