Geographic variation in a predator-induced defense and its genetic basis

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1948-1954

  Kishida, Osamu ^a   Trussell, Geoffrey C ^b   Nishimura, Kinya ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arms race; Bulgy; Coevolution; Costs; Genetic variation; Inducible defense; Inducible offense; Local adaptation; Phenotypic plasticity; Predation risk; Salamander; Tadpole

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMPHIBIAN; ARMS RACE; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FROG; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INDUCED RESPONSE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANURA; HYNOBIUS RETARDATUS; RANA PIRICA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FROG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; LARVA; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANIDAE; URODELA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 35148829576     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0132.1     Document Type: Article

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