Phenotypic variation and sexual dimorphism in anadromous threespine stickleback: Implications for postglacial adaptive radiation

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 465-478

  Aguirre, Windsor E ^a   Ellis, Kaitlyn E ^a,b   Kusenda, Mary ^a,c   Bell, Michael A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Ancestral variation; Evolutionary diversification; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Geometric morphometrics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANCESTRY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POSTGLACIAL; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TELEOST;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; RABBIT SLOUGH; UNITED STATES;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 55349112564     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01075.x     Document Type: Article

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