Niche specialization influences adaptive phenotypic plasticity in the threespine stickleback

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-59

  Svanbäck, Richard ^a,b   Schluter, Dolph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Character displacement; Evolution; Niche variation hypothesis; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENERALIST; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPECIALIZATION; TELEOST; WILD POPULATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CANADA; FEMALE; GILL; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GILLS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SMEGMAMORPHA;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84862117498     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666000     Document Type: Article

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