Quantitative genetic inheritance of morphological divergence in a lake-stream stickleback ecotype pair: Implications for reproductive isolation

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1975-1983

  Berner, D ^a   Kaeuffer, R ^b   Grandchamp, A C ^a   Raeymaekers, J A M ^c   Rasanen K ^d   Hendry, A P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variance; Dominance; Epistasis; Foraging morphology; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Genetic architecture; Geometric morphometrics; Hybrid; Line cross analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DOMINANCE; ECOTYPE; EPISTASIS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRID; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOTYPE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GILL; HISTOLOGY; LAKE; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RIVER; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ECOTYPE; FEMALE; GILLS; LAKES; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RIVERS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

CANADA;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 80051671518     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02330.x     Document Type: Article

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