Reductions in prolonged swimming capacity following freshwater colonization in multiple threespine stickleback populations

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1226-1239

  Dalziel, Anne C ^a   Vines, Timothy H ^a   Schulte, Patricia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common garden experiment; F1 hybrids; Maximum metabolic rate; Relaxed selection; Whole animal performance

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

COLONIZATION; DOMINANCE; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRID; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SELECTION; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SMEGMAMORPHA; SWIMMING; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; SMEGMAMORPHA; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 84857564640     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01498.x     Document Type: Article

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