Rapid evolutionary responses in a translocated population of intertidal snail (Bembicium vittatum) utilise variation from different source populations

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1421-1429

  Binks, Rachel M ^a   Kennington, W Jason ^a   Johnson, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allozymes; Natural selection; Periwinkle; Shell shape; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ALLOZYME; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; SHELL; SNAIL; TRANSLOCATION;

BEMBICIUM VITTATUM; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; GASTROPODA;

EID: 36148942445     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9293-3     Document Type: Article

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