Abstract:Background and AimsTraditionally, local adaptation has been seen as the outcome of a long evolutionary history, particularly in sexual lineages. In contrast, phenotypic plasticity has been thought to be most important during the initial stages of population establishment and in asexual species. We evaluated the roles of adaptive evolution and phenotypic plasticity in the invasive success of two closely related species of invasive monkeyflowers (Mimulus) in the United Kingdom (UK) that have contrasting reproduc… Show more
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