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Some recent work on the ecological genetics of resource use in insects has considered the question of whether genetic variation in behavior (resource response) or performance is associated with resource heterogeneity in the wild. In other words, do individuals in natural populations tend to be associated with particular resources because of their genetic constitution?
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Hoffmann, A.A., O’Donnell, S. (1990). Heritable Variation in Resource Use in Drosophila in the Field. In: Barker, J.S.F., Starmer, W.T., MacIntyre, R.J. (eds) Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics of Drosophila . Monographs in Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8768-8_13
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