Parallel and non-parallel morphological divergence among foraging specialists in European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1590-1602

  Siwertsson, Anna ^a   Knudsen, Rune ^a   Adams, Colin E ^a,b   Præbel, Kim ^a   Amundsen, Per Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Ecological speciation; Geometric morphometrics; Natural selection; Polymorphism; Profundal specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886235863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.562     Document Type: Article

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