Nine decades of decreasing phenotypic variability in Atlantic cod

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 622-631

  Olsen, Esben Moland ^a   Carlson, Stephanie M ^b   Gjøsæter, Jakob ^a   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic cod; Body size; Capture mark recapture; Growth; Phenotypic variability; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTION; GADOID; GENETIC VARIATION; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; BODY SIZE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; NORWAY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; GADUS MORHUA; NORWAY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 66749170717     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01311.x     Document Type: Article

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