The complexity of phenotypic plasticity in the intertidal snail Nodilittorina australis

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-76

  Yeap, K L ^a   Black, R ^a   Johnson, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canalization; Gastropod shells; Growth; Morphology; Transplant experiment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SHELL; SNAIL;

GASTROPODA; NODILITTORINA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 0035111398     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2000.0486     Document Type: Article

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