The red queen beats the jack-of-all-trades: The limitations on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and niche breadth

American Naturalist

Volumn 148, Issue SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Whitlock, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; NICHE BREADTH; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS;

EID: 0030303565     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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