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Conservation biology: genes are not enough
1Department of Biological Sciences, The University at Albany State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|October 21, 1998
Abstract:
A study of correlated genotypic and phenotypic changes over a 2400-year period in a cave population of pocket gophers bolsters the idea that small, isolated populations can not only persist in a fluctuating environment, but may be able to adapt without genetic input from elsewhere.