Pelvic girdle reduction and asymmetry in threespine stickleback from Wallace Lake, Alaska

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-170

  Lescak, Emily A ^a   Von Hippel, Frank A ^a   Bernhardt, Richard R ^a   Bell, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional asymmetry; Disruptive selection; Fluctuating asymmetry; Frequency dependent selection; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879622767     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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