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. 2020 Feb;74(2):501-503.
doi: 10.1111/evo.13891. Epub 2019 Dec 19.

Digest: Within and between sex covariances can enhance the response to climatic selection

Jacqueline L Sztepanacz  1
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Digest: Within and between sex covariances can enhance the response to climatic selection

Jacqueline L Sztepanacz. Evolution. 2020 Feb.

Abstract

Do genetic covariances promote or impede rapid adaptation to changing environments? Hangartner et al. found that genetic covariances among traits and between sexes aligned with the inferred direction of selection along a latitudinal cline, suggesting that genetic covariances can augment the evolutionary response to climatic selection.

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