Evolutionary biology: patchy food may maintain a foraging polymorphism.
Two naturally-occurring alleles in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans that differ by a single amino acid and cause striking differences in foraging behavior are probably maintained by selection in patchy environments.
Kiontke
Karin
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Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. kk52@nyu.edu
D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics*; D004777:Environment; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012641:Selection, Genetic