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Signatures of selection in natural populations adapted to chronic pollution

BACKGROUND: Populations of the teleost fish Fundulus heteroclitus appear to flourish in heavily polluted and geographically separated Superfund sites. Populations from three Superfund sites (New Bedford Harbor, MA, Newark Bay, NJ, and Elizabeth River, VA) have independently evolved adaptive resistan...

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Autores principales: Williams, Larissa M, Oleksiak, Marjorie F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2570689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18847479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-282