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The phototactic responses of four clones of Daphnia magna were experimentally analysed. Broad-sense heritability of this behavioural character was estimated through an analysis of variance, and it was very high under the standardised experimental conditions of this study.
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De Meester, L. An estimation of the heritability of phototaxis in Daphnia magna Straus. Oecologia 78, 142–144 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00377210
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