Up against the edge: Invasive species as testbeds for basic questions about evolution in heterogeneous environments

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 4347-4348

  Holt, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BROMUS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BROMUS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 70350075805     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04358.x     Document Type: Article

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