Special Issue: Kin Selection Genomics: moving behavioural ecology beyond the phenotypic gambit
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Genomics: moving behavioural ecology beyond the phenotypic gambit.
Researchers studying the adaptive significance of behaviour typically assume that genetic mechanisms will not inhibit evolutionary trajectories, an assumption commonly known as the 'phenotypic gambit'. Although the phenotypic gambit continues to be a useful heuristic for behavioural ecology, here we discuss how genomic methods provide new tools and conceptual approaches that are relevant to beh...
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