Morphological anti-predator defences in the nine-spined stickleback: Constitutive, induced or both?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 854-866

  Välimäki, Kaisa ^a   Herczeg, Gábor ^a,b   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Armour; Body shape; Common garden; Phenotypic plasticity; Predation; Pungitius pungitius

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BODY SHAPE; GARDEN; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK; TELEOST; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PISCES; PUNGITIUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

EID: 84869810849     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01989.x     Document Type: Article

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