Metabolic cold adaptation and developmental plasticity in metabolic rates among species in the Fundulus notatus species complex

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1087-1094

  Schaefer, Jacob ^a   Walters, Ashley ^a  

^a The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental plasticity; Fundulus; Latitudinal cline; Metabolic cold adaptation; Metabolic rate

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BODY SIZE; CLINE; COLD TOLERANCE; CYPRINID; ECTOTHERMY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REACTION NORM; SPECIES COMPLEX; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

FUNDULUS; FUNDULUS EURYZONUS; FUNDULUS NOTATUS; FUNDULUS OLIVACEUS;

EID: 78149286547     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01726.x     Document Type: Article

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