Habitat-associated morphological divergence in two Neotropical fish species

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 689-698

  Langerhans, R Brian ^a,b   Layman, Craig A ^a   Langerhans, Aimee K ^a   Dewitt, Thomas J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergent natural selection; Ecomorphology; Evolutionary constraints; Gene flow; Geometric morphometrics; Phenotypic plasticity; Population differentiation; Population mixing; Resource polymorphism; Water velocity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DIVERGENCE; FISH; GENE FLOW; MORPHOLOGY;

CINARUCO RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

BIOTODOMA WAVRINI; CHARACIDAE; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 0346270690     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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