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Intense selective hunting leads to artificial evolution in horn size

The potential for selective harvests to induce rapid evolutionary change is an important question for conservation and evolutionary biology, with numerous biological, social and economic implications. We analyze 39 years of phenotypic data on horn size in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) subject to i...

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Autores principales: Pigeon, Gabriel, Festa‐Bianchet, Marco, Coltman, David W., Pelletier, Fanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27099619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.12358

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