Historical and ecological correlates of body shape in the brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 769-783

  Ward, Jessica Lyn ^a   McLennan, Deborah Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Allopatric divergence; Cline; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Gene flow; Geometric morphometrics; Morphological evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOPATRY; BODY SHAPE; CLADISTICS; CLINE; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; REFUGIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELEOST;

CULAEA; CULAEA INCONSTANS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 63849314532     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01180.x     Document Type: Article

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