Development and evolution of character displacement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1256, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-107

  Pfennig, David W ^a   Pfennig, Karin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive divergence; Competition; Ecological developmental biology; Genetic assimilation; Genetics of adaptation; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CALMODULIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; PHYTOCHROME; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ALLOPATRY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84861013052     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06381.x     Document Type: Article

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