Ancestral variation and the potential for genetic accommodation in larval amphibians: Implications for the evolution of novel feeding strategies

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 316-325

  Ledon Rettig, Cris C ^a   Pfennig, David W ^a   Nascone Yoder, Nanette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; DIET; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; LARVA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TOAD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PELOBATIDAE; SCAPHIOPUS; SCAPHIOPUS COUCHII; SPEA; SPEA MULTIPLICATA;

EID: 43249084946     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00240.x     Document Type: Article

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