Rapid shape divergences between natural and introduced populations of a horned beetle partly mirror divergences between species

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-175

  Pizzo, Astrid ^a   Roggero, Angela ^a   Palestrini, Claudia ^a   Moczek, Armin P ^b   Rolando, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DIVERGENCE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NATIVE SPECIES; NUTRITION; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SHAPE; SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COLEOPTERA; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS;

EID: 40349094558     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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