Costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity in Island populations of the common frog Rana Temporaria under divergent selection pressures

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1508-1518

  Lind, Martin I ^a   Johansson, Frank ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Costs of plasticity; Development time; Limits of plasticity; Pool permanence; Size at metamorphosis

Indexed keywords

CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); DIVERGENCE; FROG; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; METAMORPHOSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FROG; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; METAMORPHOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; RANA TEMPORARIA; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANURA; RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 66249087622     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00647.x     Document Type: Article

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