Evolutionary history of an adaptive radiation in species pairs of threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus): Insights from mitochondrial DNA

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 271-291

  Taylor, Eric B ^a   McPhail, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Genetic variation; Speciation; Species pairs; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CANADA; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIVERSITY; HAPLOTYPE; INTROGRESSION; LAKE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; EVOLUTION; FOOD PREFERENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; STRAIT OF GEORGIA;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0032945965     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0266     Document Type: Article

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