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Developmental plasticity evolved according to specialist-generalist trade-offs in experimental populations of

Jacqueline Le Vinh Thuy1, John M VandenBrooks2, Michael J Angilletta3

  • 1School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

Biology Letters
|July 14, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Drosophilaexperimental evolutionperformanceplasticityselectiontemperature

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