Evolution of phenotypic clusters through competition and local adaptation along an environmental gradient

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 807-822

  Leimar, Olof ^a   Doebeli, Michael ^b   Dieckmann, Ulf ^c,d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Asexual populations; Disruptive selection; Parapatry; Pattern formation; Quantitative characters

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GENE FLOW; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAPATRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELECTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 41749087122     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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