Results: Individual Age, Nutritional Quality, and Genetics Influence Male White-tailed Deer Phenotype
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The overall goal of this experimental design is to assist whether population level genetics restrict white-tailed deer, odocoileus virginianus antler and body size by controlling for other variables that also influence antler and body size such as
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Phenotypic differences among cervid populations may be related to population-level genetics or nutrition; discerning which is difficult in the wild. This protocol describes how we designed a controlled study where nutritional variation was eliminated. We found that phenotypic variation of male white-tailed deer was more limited by nutrition than genetics.