The effects of competition and predation on diversification in a model adaptive radiation

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7134, 2007, Pages 432-435

  Meyer, Justin R ^a   Kassen, Rees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BACTERIUM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION; PREY SELECTION; PROTIST;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTISTA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SELECTION, GENETIC; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 33947504820     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05599     Document Type: Article

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