Disruptive selection and bet-hedging in planktonic Foraminifera: Shell morphology as predictor of extinctions

Extinction is a remarkably difficult phenomenon to study under natural conditions. This is because the outcome of stress exposure and associated fitness reduction is not known until the extinction occurs and it remains unclear whether there is any phenotypic reaction of the exposed population that c...

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Main Authors: Manuel F. G. Weinkauf, Tobias eMoller, Mirjam C. Koch, Michal eKucera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2014.00064/full