Increasing melanism along a latitudinal gradient in a widespread amphibian: local adaptation, ontogenic or environmental plasticity?

BACKGROUND: The thermal benefits of melanism in ectothermic animals are widely recognized, but relatively little is known about population differentiation in the degree of melanism along thermal gradients, and the relative contributions of genetic vs. environmental components into the level of melan...

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Autores principales: Alho, Jussi S, Herczeg, Gábor, Söderman, Fredrik, Laurila, Anssi, Jönsson, K Ingemar, Merilä, Juha
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20964816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-317

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20964816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-317

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