Gut length plasticity in perch: Into the bowels of resource polymorphisms

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 517-523

  Olsson, Jens ^a   Quevedo, Mario ^a,b   Colson, Celine ^a   Svanbäck, Richard ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive individual variation; Body condition; Diet switch; Fitness cost; Food digestibility; Food type; Gastrointestinal tract length; Phenotypic plasticity; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; DIETARY SHIFT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FITNESS; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PALATABILITY; PERCID; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMORPHISM; RESOURCE USE;

ANIMALIA; PERCA FLUVIATILIS;

EID: 33847192537     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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