Change in individual growth rate and its link to gill-net fishing in two sympatric whitefish species

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 681-693

  Nusslé, Sébastien ^a   Bréchon, Amanda ^a   Wedekind, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Coregonus; Lake Brienz (Switzerland); Rapid evolution; Salmonid; Selection differential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GILLNET; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; SALMONID; SIZE SELECTION; SYMPATRY;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; BRIENZERSEE; SWITZERLAND;

COREGONUS; COREGONUS ALBELLUS; COREGONUS FATIOI; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79953675377     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-010-9412-3     Document Type: Article

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