Ecology of the fourspine stickleback, Apeltes quadracus, with respect to a polymorphism for dorsal spine number
Ecology of the fourspine stickleback, Apeltes quadracus, with respect to a polymorphism for dorsal spine number
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四刺刺鱼 Apeltesquadracus 的生态学,涉及背刺数量多态性
DOI:
10.1139/z81-232
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
D. Hagen
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作者:
D. M. Blouw;D. Hagen
The subject of our research is the ecological genetics of a polymorphism for dorsal spine number in Apeltes quadracus. Here we present information on its ecology and on dorsal spine variation, as background for subsequent publications.Estimating age from otoliths is subject to several serious errors, and spine sections are questionable. We have estimated generation time at about 1 year using length frequency distributions. Dorsal spine number varies from one to seven, but the four-and five-spined morphs predominate. The polymorphism is ubiquitous; where samples are available for comparisons over time, morph frequencies have remained relatively constant for at least 50 years. Sex ratio is highly variable among sites and among samples at particular sites. However, morph frequencies are independent of sex and age. Morph frequencies are homogeneous among samples taken at differing times of day, tide levels, months within a year, and among years. They are also homogeneous among microhabitats we sampled in an e...