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SUBMITTER: Sun SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7403679 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evolution letters 20200527 4
Models of "plasticity-first" evolution are attractive because they explain the rapid evolution of new complex adaptations. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether plasticity can facilitate rapid microevolutionary change between diverging populations. Here, we show how plasticity may have generated adaptive differences in fecundity between neighboring wild populations of burying beetles <i>Nicrophorus vespilloides</i>. These populations occupy distinct Cambridgeshire woodlands that are just 2.5 km ap ...[more]