Independent evolutionary origins of landlocked alewife populations and rapid parallel evolution of phenotypic traits

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 582-597

  Palkovacs, Eric P ^a,b   Dion, Kirstin B ^a   Post, David M ^a   Caccone, Adalgisa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alosa pseudoharengus; Anadromous; Divergence time; Evolutionary rate; Gill rakers; Parallel evolution

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CONNECTICUT; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS;

EID: 38149026133     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03593.x     Document Type: Article

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