Fitness benefits of trypsin proteinase inhibitor expression in <it>Nicotiana attenuata </it>are greater than their costs when plants are attacked.
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The commonly invoked cost-benefit paradigm, central to most of functional biology, explains why one phenotype cannot be optimally fit in all environments; yet it is rarely tested. Trypsin proteinase inhibitors (TPIs) expression in &l...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2004-08-01
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Series: | BMC Ecology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/4/11 |