Background matching and color-change plasticity in colonizing freshwater sculpin populations following rapid deglaciation

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1519-1529

  Whiteley, Andrew R ^a,b,d   Gende, Scott M ^c   Gharrett, Anthony J ^b   Tallmon, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Colonization; Gene flow; Glacial recession; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLOR; DEGLACIATION; DIVERGENCE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT USE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TELEOST;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLOR; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ICE COVER; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALASKA; ANIMALS; COLOR; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FISHES; FRESH WATER; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ICE COVER; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION;

COTTUS; COTTUS ALEUTICUS;

EID: 66249114646     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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