Experimental demonstration of ecological character displacement

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Tyerman, Jabus G ^a   Bertrand, Melanie ^a   Spencer, Christine C ^b   Doebeli, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PHENOTYPE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 40849118249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-34     Document Type: Article

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