Ecological speciation in postglacial European whitefish: Rapid adaptive radiations into the littoral, pelagic, and profundal lake habitats

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4970-4986

  Præbel, Kim ^a   Knudsen, Rune ^a   Siwertsson, Anna ^a   Karhunen, Markku ^b   Kahilainen, Kimmo K ^b   Ovaskainen, Otso ^b   Østbye, Kjartan ^c,d   Peruzzi, Stefano ^a   Fevolden, Svein Erik ^a   Amundsen, Per Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coregonus lavaretus; Gill raker; Phenotype genotype correlation; Postglacial fish; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889682636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.867     Document Type: Article

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