Integrating molecular genetics and ecology in studies of adaptive radiation: Whitefish, Coregonus sp., as a case study

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 173-194

  Bernatchez, Louis ^a   Chouinard, Angelo ^a   Lu, Guoqing ^a  

^a GIROQ Département de Biologie   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fish; Gasterosteus; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; Morphology; Phylogeography; Speciation; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY; LAKE; MICROSATELLITE LOCUS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS;

COREGONUS; GASTEROSTEUS;

EID: 0032880083     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1999.0337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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