Phylogeny as a Proxy for Ecology in Seagrass Amphipods: Which Traits Are Most Conserved?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Best, Rebecca J ^a   Stachowicz, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SEAGRASS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

EID: 84874732539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057550     Document Type: Article

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