Morphological and dietary differences between individuals are weakly but positively correlated within a population of threespine stickleback

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1217-1233

  Bolnick, Daniel I ^a   Paull, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Individual specialization; Niche evolution; Niche variation

Indexed keywords

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 73849134657     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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