Genetic and environmental contributions to the morphology of lake and stream stickleback: Implications for gene flow and reproductive isolation

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 849-866

  Sharpe, Diana M T ^a   Räsänen, Katja ^b   Berner, Daniel ^a   Hendry, Andrew P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive divergence; Common garden experiment; Geometric morphometrics; Phenotypic change vector analysis; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 55949114908     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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