Multiple evolutionary pathways to decreased lateral plate coverage in freshwater threespine sticklebacks

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3866-3875

  Leinonen, Tuomas ^a   McCairns, R J Scott ^a   Herczeg, Gábor ^a,b   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Convergent evolution; Ectodysplasin a (Eda); Gasterosteus aculeatus; Standing genetic variation

Indexed keywords

ECTODYSPLASIN A;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; COLONIZATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DOMINANCE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TELEOST;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECTODYSPLASINS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 84870565965     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01724.x     Document Type: Article

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