Influence of genotype and geography on shell shape and morphometric trait variation among North Atlantic blue mussel (Mytilus spp.) populations

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 875-897

  Gardner, Jonathan P A ^a,b   Thompson, Raymond J ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blue mussels; Elliptical Fourier Analysis; Genotype phenotype interactions; Genotypic variation; Hybridization; Introgression; Phenotypic variation; Principal Component Analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIVALVE; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; INTROGRESSION; MORPHOMETRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SHAPE; SHELL; TAXONOMY;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

MYTILUS; MYTILUS EDULIS; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS;

EID: 63849260820     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01166.x     Document Type: Article

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