Flow-mediated plasticity in the expression of stickleback nesting glue genes

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1233-1242

  Seear, Paul J ^a   Head, Megan L ^b   Tilley, Ceinwen A ^a   Rosato, Ezio ^a   Barber, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Animal construction; Glue; Nest building behavior; Phenotypic plasticity; Spiggin; Sticklebacks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898959601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1016     Document Type: Article

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