Modelling the genetics and demography of step cline formation: Gastropod populations preyed on by experimentally introduced crabs

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1976-1987

  Boulding, E G ^a   Hay, T ^a   Holst, M ^a,b   Kamel, S ^a,c   Pakes, D ^a,d   Tie, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b LGL LIMITED   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Demography; Experimental evolution; Field experiment; Fitness function; Hemigrapsus nudus; Invading species; Littorina subrotundata; Population structure; Quantitative genetics; Theory

Indexed keywords

CLINE; CRAB; DEMOGRAPHY; FIELD SURVEY; FITNESS; GENETICS; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; SNAIL;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYURA; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAIL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SNAILS;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; HEMIGRAPSUS NUDUS; LITTORINA SUBROTUNDATA;

EID: 34547893435     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01369.x     Document Type: Article

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