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SUBMITTER: Bassar RD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2840427 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bassar Ronald D RD Marshall Michael C MC López-Sepulcre Andrés A Zandonà Eugenia E Auer Sonya K SK Travis Joseph J Pringle Catherine M CM Flecker Alexander S AS Thomas Steven A SA Fraser Douglas F DF Reznick David N DN
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100204 8
Theory suggests evolutionary change can significantly influence and act in tandem with ecological forces via ecological-evolutionary feedbacks. This theory assumes that significant evolutionary change occurs over ecologically relevant timescales and that phenotypes have differential effects on the environment. Here we test the hypothesis that local adaptation causes ecosystem structure and function to diverge. We demonstrate that populations of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata), characte ...[more]