Strong and consistent natural selection associated with armour reduction in sticklebacks

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2483-2493

  Le Rouzic, Arnaud ^a,b   Østbye, Kjartan ^a   Klepaker, Tom O ^c   Hansen, Thomas F ^a   Bernatchez, Louis ^d   Schluter, Dolph ^e   Vøllestad, L Asbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

adaptive evolution; Ectodysplasin A; Gasterosteus aculeatus; maximum likelihood; population genetics; selection response

Indexed keywords

ECTODYSPLASIN A; FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; NORWAY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SMEGMAMORPHA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALASKA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECTODYSPLASINS; FRESH WATER; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; NORWAY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; SELECTION, GENETIC; SMEGMAMORPHA; TIME FACTORS;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 79958828734     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05071.x     Document Type: Article

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