Little evidence for a selective advantage of armour-reduced threespined stickleback individuals in an invertebrate predation experiment

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1293-1309

  Zeller, Michael ^a,b   Lucek, Kay ^a,b   Haesler, Marcel ^a,b   Seehausen, Ole ^a,b   Sivasundar, Arjun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aeshna; Dragonfly larvae; Eda; Lateral plates; Stn382

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COLONIZATION; DRAGONFLY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; PERCIFORM; PISCIVORE; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

EID: 84867656045     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-012-9566-2     Document Type: Article

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