Phenotypic divergence and reproductive isolation between sympatric forms of Japanese threespine sticklebacks

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 671-685

  Kitano, Jun ^a   Mori, Seiichi ^b   Peichel, Catherine L ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b GIFU KEIZAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body size; Courtship behaviour; Hybrid male sterility; Mate choice; Sexual isolation; Speciation; Species pair

Indexed keywords

ANADROMY; BODY SIZE; COURTSHIP; DIVERGENCE; FINFISH; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; LAST GLACIAL; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; STERILITY; SYMPATRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 34547655478     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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