Experimental Evolution and Its Role in Evolutionary Physiology

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Summary

Contrary to predictions, fitness and efficiency in the constant ancestral environment of 37°C did not decrease, nor did thermal niche breadth or phenotypic plasticity increase, and selection experiments can provide a valuable approach to testing hypotheses and assumptions about the evolution of functional characters.

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Published
1999-04-01
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Keywords

Adaptation (eye), Biology, Selection (genetic algorithm), Experimental evolution, Evolutionary biology

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