How much of the variation in adaptive divergence can be explained by gene flow? An evaluation using lake-stream stickleback pairs

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2319-2331

  Hendry, Andrew P ^a   Taylor, Eric B ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Dispersal; Ecological speciation; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Microsatellites; Migration; Natural selection; Population mixing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DIVERGENCE; FISH; GENE FLOW; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 7544219876     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01606.x     Document Type: Article

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