Assessing the impacts of phenotypic plasticity on evolution

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-15

  Wund, Matthew A ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

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ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHENOTYPE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84863446830     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ics050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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