Variation in spawning time promotes genetic variability in population responses to environmental change in a marine fish

Conservation Physiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Oomen, Rebekah A ^a,b   Hutchings, Jeffrey A ^a,b,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic cod; Climate change; Common garden experiment; Gadus morhua; Genotype by environment interaction; Thermal adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983684981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cov027     Document Type: Article

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