Change and stability in a steep morph-frequency cline in the snail Cepaea nemoralis (L.) over 43 years

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 473-483

  Cameron, Robert A D ^a,b   Cook, Laurence M ^c   Greenwood, Jeremy J D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinal; Migration; Polymorphism; Temporal change.

Indexed keywords

CLINE; COLOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SELECTION; SHELL; SNAIL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

DERBYSHIRE; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84874013591     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02033.x     Document Type: Article

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