Adaptive life-history evolution in the livebearing fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora: Genetic basis for parallel divergence in age and size at maturity and a test of predator-induced plasticity

Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1486-1491

  Johnson, Jerald B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical cue; Common garden; Convergent evolution; Delayed maturity; Growth rate; Phenotypic plasticity; Predator induced

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; FISH; LIFE HISTORY; PHENOTYPE;

COSTA RICA;

ANIMALIA; BRACHYRHAPHIS RHABDOPHORA;

EID: 0034893568     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00668.x     Document Type: Article

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