Costly plastic morphological responses to predator specific odour cues in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 641-656

  Frommen, Joachim G ^a,b   Herder, Fabian ^c   Engqvist, Leif ^a,d   Mehlis, Marion ^a   Bakker, Theo C M ^a   Schwarzer, Julia ^c   Thünken, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Induced defences; Phenotypic plasticity; Predation risk; Reaction norm; Schreckstoff; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INDUCED RESPONSE; MORPHOLOGY; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; INVERTEBRATA; PISCES;

EID: 79953718038     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-010-9454-6     Document Type: Article

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