Nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius): An emerging model for evolutionary biology research

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1289, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-35

  Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Convergence; Evolution; Fish; Gasterostidae; Genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY ARMOR; BODY BUILD; BODY SIZE; BRAIN SIZE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FISH GENETICS; FRESHWATER FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH CURVE; HABITAT; HEREDITY; LAKE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLIC RATE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POND; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PUNGITIUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS; RIVER; SEX DIFFERENCE;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

EID: 84879314648     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12089     Document Type: Article

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