Morphological variation over ontogeny and environments in resource polymorphic arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 246-257

  Parsons, Kevin J ^a   Skúlason, Skuli ^b   Ferguson, Moira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b HÓLAR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); DIVERGENCE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SALMONID;

ICELAND;

SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; ICELAND; TROUT;

ANIMALS; ICELAND; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TROUT;

EID: 77954002425     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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