Ecological causes of morphological evolution in the three-spined stickleback

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1717-1726

  Spence, Rowena ^a   Wootton, Robert J ^b   Barber, Iain ^c   Przybylski, Miroslaw ^d   Smith, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Calcium concentration; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Natural selection; Nuptial coloration; Phenotypic adaptation; Selective predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885859660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.581     Document Type: Article

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