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SUBMITTER: Herrel A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2290806 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Herrel Anthony A Huyghe Katleen K Vanhooydonck Bieke B Backeljau Thierry T Breugelmans Karin K Grbac Irena I Van Damme Raoul R Irschick Duncan J DJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080314 12
Although rapid adaptive changes in morphology on ecological time scales are now well documented in natural populations, the effects of such changes on whole-organism performance capacity and the consequences on ecological dynamics at the population level are often unclear. Here we show how lizards have rapidly evolved differences in head morphology, bite strength, and digestive tract structure after experimental introduction into a novel environment. Despite the short time scale ( approximately ...[more]