Microgeographical diversification of threespine stickleback: Body shape-habitat correlations in a small, ecologically diverse Alaskan drainage

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 139-151

  Aguirre, Windsor E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Benthic limnetics; Evolutionary diversification; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Geometric morphometrics; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SHAPE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LIMNOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ALASKA; FISH CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 69449083317     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01267.x     Document Type: Article

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