Rapid evolution of fire melanism in replicated populations of pygmy grasshoppers

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2530-2540

  Forsman, Anders ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Wennersten, Lena ^a   Johansson, Jenny ^a   Karpestam, Einat ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Biodiversity; Coloration; Environmental change; Evolution; Pigmentation pattern; Polymorphism; Tetrix subulata

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GRASSHOPPER; MELANIN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMORPHISM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FIRE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FIRES; GRASSHOPPERS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SWEDEN;

TETRIGIDAE; TETRIX SUBULATA;

EID: 80052269423     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01324.x     Document Type: Article

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