Adaptation to heavy metals in the aquatic oligochaete Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri: Evidence for control by one gene

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1339-1343

  Martínez, Daniel E ^a   Levinton, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri; metal adaptation; metals; methallothionein; oligochaete; quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029783145     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02374.x     Document Type: Article

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