The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses

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Summary

An integrated approach to studying inducible defenses would combine mechanistic estimates of costs, population-level estimates of defense effectiveness, and genetic estimates of correlations between fitness and inducibles characters to estimate rates of evolution in phenotypically plastic threshold characters.

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review
Published
1990-09-01
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Keywords

Biology, Natural selection, Ecology, Competitor analysis, Predation

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