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The experiment reports increasingly restrictive genetic covariances that constrained flowering-phenology adaptation despite selection for rapid trait evolution. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: A resurrection experiment reveals reduced adaptive potential in a common agricultural weed · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:4e363f7da2953db22855b2016f3713bc081fddb428acccb1aa9a2918b9f68043

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Using a resurrection approach, we demonstrate that the structure of genetic covariances among pollination and mating-system traits in the common morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) is increasingly constraining evolutionary trajectories. Pollinator-attracting traits evolved or became more favored on a rapid time scale of less than ten years, but genetic covariances between traits limited the adaptive rate and evolutionary trajectory of flowering phenology.

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