Inducible competitors and adaptive diversification

Current Zoology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 537-552

  Robinson, Beren W ^a   Pfennig, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Character displacement; Competition; Genetic assimilation; Phenotypic plasticity; Resource polymorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881526539     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/59.4.537     Document Type: Article

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