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SUBMITTER: Uusi-Heikkila S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5046938 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Uusi-Heikkilä Silva S Lindström Kai K Parre Noora N Arlinghaus Robert R Alós Josep J Kuparinen Anna A
Biology letters 20160901 9
Changes in trait variability owing to size-selective harvesting have received little attention in comparison with changes in mean trait values, perhaps because of the expectation that phenotypic variability should generally be eroded by directional selection typical for fishing and hunting. We show, however, that directional selection, in particular for large body size, leads to increased body-size variation in experimentally harvested zebrafish (Danio rerio) populations exposed to two alternati ...[more]