Physiological adaptation along environmental gradients and replicated hybrid zone structure in swordtails (Teleostei: Xiphophorus)

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1800-1814

  Culumber, Zachary W ^a,b   Shepard, D B ^c   Coleman, S W ^d   Rosenthal, G G ^a,b   Tobler, M ^b,e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigaciones Científicas de las Huastecas ''Aguazarca''   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological niche modelling; Elevation gradient; Hybridization; Poeciliid; Population genetics; Thermal tolerance

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HEAT SHOCK; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN; TELEOST; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HEAT; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SEASON; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; VIVIPARITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN;

PISCES; POECILIIDAE; TELEOSTEI; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS BIRCHMANNI; XIPHOPHORUS MALINCHE;

EID: 84865194896     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02562.x     Document Type: Article

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