Intraspecific diversity in arctic charr, salvelinus alpinus, in iceland: I. detection using mixture models

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 973-992

  Woods, Pamela J ^a,b,c   Skúlason, Skúli ^a   Snorrason, Sigurour S ^b   Kristjánsson, Bjarni K ^a   Malmquist, Hilmar J ^d   Quinn, Thomas P ^c  

^a HÓLAR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Natural History Museum of Kópavogur   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Bimodal Distribution; Divergent Selection; Ecological Speciation; Individual Heterogeneity; Life History; Maturity; Mixture Model; Resource Polymorphism; Salmonid; Von Bertalanffy

Indexed keywords

SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84873596682     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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