Parallel evolution and ecological selection: Replicated character displacement in spadefoot toads

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1676, 2009, Pages 4189-4196

  Rice, Amber M ^a,b   Leichty, Aaron R ^a   Pfennig, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Competition; Divergent evolution; Parallel evolution; Population history

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GENE FLOW; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMPATRY; TOAD;

ALLOPATRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATRY; TOAD;

PELOBATIDAE; SPEA MULTIPLICATA;

EID: 72849117144     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1337     Document Type: Article

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