Experimentally manipulated growth rate in threespine sticklebacks: Assessing trade offs with developmental stability

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-78

  Robinson, Beren W ^a,b,c   Wardrop, Sharilynn L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constraints; Development; Evolution; Fluctuating asymmetry; Growth; Honest signaling; Life history traits; Manipulative experiment; Ontogeny; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; EVOLUTION; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; TRADE-OFF;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036176371     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013820101348     Document Type: Article

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