Lakes and ponds as model systems to study parallel evolution

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 73, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2014, Pages 33-45

  Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Convergent evolution; Effective population size; Fish; Genetic variability; Parallel evolution; Quantitative trait

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; LAKE EVOLUTION; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 84904250223     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2014.805     Document Type: Article

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