Evolutionary response to size-selective mortality in an exploited fish population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1613, 2007, Pages 1015-1022

  Swain, Douglas P ^a   Sinclair, Alan F ^b   Hanson, J Mark ^a  

^a GULF FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; Exploited populations; Fisheries; Heritability; Quantitative genetics; Size selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EXPLOITATION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; GADOID; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HERITABILITY; MORTALITY; SIZE AT MATURITY; SIZE SELECTION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; BODY SIZE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FISHING; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SPAWNING; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

GADUS MORHUA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FISHERIES; GADUS MORHUA; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 34249942509     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0275     Document Type: Article

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