A test of the "flexible stem" model of evolution: Ancestral plasticity, genetic accommodation, and morphological divergence in the threespine stickleback radiation

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 449-462

  Wund, Matthew A ^a   Baker, John A ^a   Clancy, Brendan ^a   Golub, Justin L ^a   Foster, Susan A ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Baldwin effect; Flexible stem model; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BENTHOS; DIET; EVOLUTION; FISH; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALS; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS;

EID: 53149126505     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590966     Document Type: Article

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