Discrete foraging niches promote ecological, phenotypic, and genetic divergence in sympatric whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 547-564

  Siwertsson, Anna ^a   Knudsen, Rune ^a   Præbel, Kim ^a   Adams, Colin E ^b   Newton, Jason ^c   Amundsen, Per Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Natural selection; Parallel evolution; Resource polymorphism; Stable isotopes; Trophic specialization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; POLYMORPHISM; SALMONID; SPECIALIZATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMPATRY;

COREGONUS LAVARETUS; PISCES;

EID: 84875397303     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-012-9607-x     Document Type: Article

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