Variation of shell shape in the clonal snail Melanoides tuberculata and its consequences for the interpretation of fossil series

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 492-502

  Samadi, Sarah ^a,b   David, Patrice ^b,c   Jarne, Philippe ^b,c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Melanoides tuberculata; Parthenogenesis; Punctuated equilibrium; Raup's model; Shell morphometry

Indexed keywords

CLONE; DIMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIANCE; INVERTEBRATE; KENYA; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SHELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPICS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; SHELL;

GASTROPODA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA;

EID: 0034023153     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00052.x     Document Type: Article

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