Body armour and lateral-plate reduction in freshwater three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus: Adaptations to a different buoyancy regime?

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2062-2074

  Myhre, F ^a   Klepaker, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Freshwater adaptation; Lateral plates

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ADAPTATION; AIR SAC; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AIR SACS; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; FRESH WATER; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 72549092252     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02404.x     Document Type: Article

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