Selection for phenotypic plasticity in Rana sylvatica tadpoles

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 301-328

  Van Buskirk, Josh ^a,b   Relyea, Rick A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Inducible defence; Morphology; Natural selection; Predation

Indexed keywords

FROG; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION;

RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 0031674267     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0249     Document Type: Article

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