Rapid evolution of muscle fibre number in post-glacial populations of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 4343-4360

  Johnston, Ian A ^a   Abercromby, Marguerite ^a   Vieira, Vera L A ^a   Sigursteindóttir, Rakel J ^b   Kristjánsson, Bjarni K ^b   Sibthorpe, Dean ^a   Skúlason, Skúli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b HÓLAR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Arctic charr; Developmental plasticity; Fish; Forkhead box protein K1 ; Growth; Muscle fibres; Myogenesis; Myogenic progenitor cell; Myogenic regulatory factor; Paired box protein 7; Resource polymorphism

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ADAPTATION; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ICELAND; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TROUT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION; FRESH WATER; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ICELAND; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TROUT;

PISCES; SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 11444265309     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01292     Document Type: Article

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