Growth in the bivalve Macoma balthica from its northern to its southern distribution limit: A discontinuity in North Europe because of genetic adaptations in Arctic populations?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 133-141

  Hummel, Herman ^a   Bogaards, Roelof ^a   Bek, Tatiana ^b   Polishchuk, Lennard ^b   Sokolov, Kirill ^b   Amiard Triquet, Claude ^c   Bachelet, Guy ^d   Desprez, Michel ^e   Naumov, Andrei ^f   Strelkov, Peter ^f   Dahle, Salve ^g   Denisenko, Stanislav ^h   Gantsevich, Michael ^b   De Wolf, Lein ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e GEMEL Picardie   (France)

^f Zoological Institute   (Russian Federation)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h MURMANSK MARINE BIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Arctic; Distribution limit; Genetics; Geographic cline; Growth; Macoma balthica; Shell length

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARCTIC; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EUROPE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; MACOMA BALTHICA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0031874331     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10021-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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