An intertidal snail shows a dramatic size increase over the past century

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5209-5212

  Fisher, Jonathan A D ^a,b   Rhile, Erika C ^c,d   Liu, Harrison ^d   Petraitis, Peter S ^d  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c Cheverus High School   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology; Museum collections; Natural history; Rocky shores trait variation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERTIDAL SPECIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAIL; SNAIL SHELL;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY SIZE; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SNAILS;

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; NUCELLA LAPILLUS;

EID: 65249168197     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812137106     Document Type: Article

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