Morphological divergence of North-European nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius): Signatures of parallel evolution

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 403-416

  Herczeg, Gábor ^a   Turtiainen, Mirva ^a   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body armour; Body shape; Geographic variation; Natural selection; Predation

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT TYPE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; POND; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; TELEOST;

FENNOSCANDIA;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

EID: 78649395557     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01518.x     Document Type: Article

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