Shaping development through mechanical strain: The transcriptional basis of diet-induced phenotypic plasticity in a cichlid fish

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4516-4531

  Gunter, Helen M ^a   Fan, Shaohua ^a   Xiong, Fan ^a   Franchini, Paolo ^a   Fruciano, Carmelo ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

acellular bone; Astatorochromis alluaudi; cichlid; molluscivory; pharyngeal jaw; phenotypic plasticity; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883258017     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12417     Document Type: Article

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