Adaptive divergence vs. environmental plasticity: Tracing local genetic adaptation of metamorphosis traits in salamanders

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1665-1677

  Weitere, Markus ^a   Tautz, Diethard ^a   Neumann, Dietrich ^a   Steinfartz, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive divergence; Biogeography; Common environment experiments; D loop; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAPLOTYPE; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; STOMACH JUICE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPES; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; URODELA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; REPTILIA; SALAMANDRA SALAMANDRA;

EID: 2542445603     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02155.x     Document Type: Article

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