Adaptation and constraint in a stickleback radiation

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2396-2414

  Voje, K L ^a   Mazzarella, A B ^a   Hansen, T F ^a   Ostbye K ^a,b   Klepaker, T ^c   Bass, A ^a   Herland, A ^a   Baerum K M ^a,b   Gregersen, F ^d   Vollestad L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Multiconsult AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive radiation; Allometry; Evolutionary constraint; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Morphometrics; Phylogenetic comparative method

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALLOMETRY; CALCIUM; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOMETRY; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; TELEOST;

NORWAY;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

CALCIUM;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; LAKE; MORPHOMETRICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC COMPARATIVE METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALLOMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYLOGENETIC COMPARATIVE METHOD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CALCIUM; GEOGRAPHY; LAKES; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84885871789     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12240     Document Type: Article

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