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.
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Department of Biological Sciences, The University at Albany State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA.
D000818:Animals; D003970:Diastema; D005838:Genotype; D007568:Jaw / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D010641:Phenotype; D012377:Rodentia / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D014070:Tooth / Q000033:anatomy & histology