Plastic and heritable components of phenotypic variation in nucella lapillus: An assessment using reciprocal transplant and common garden experiments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pascoal, Sonia ^a,b   Carvalho, Gary ^a   Creer, Simon ^a   Rock, Jenny ^c   Kawaii, Kei ^d   Mendo, Sonia ^b   Hughes, Roger ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FORAGING; GENE CONTROL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC TRAIT; GROWTH RATE; INTERTIDAL SPECIES; KARYOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCELLA LAPILLUS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SNAIL; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL SHELL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GASTROPOD; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; UNITED KINGDOM;

GASTROPODA; NUCELLA LAPILLUS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GASTROPODA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SNAILS; WALES;

EID: 84856397387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030289     Document Type: Article

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