Conservation biology: genes are not enough.
A study of correlated genotypic and phenotypic changes over a 2400-year period in a cave population of pocket gophers bolsters the idea that small, isolated populations can not only persist in a fluctuating environment, but may be able to adapt without genetic input from elsewhere.
Department of Biological Sciences, The University at Albany State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA.
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