Data from: Population divergence in compensatory growth responses and their costs in sticklebacks

• Main Authors: Ab Ghani, Nurul Izza, Merilä, Juha
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: compensatory growth; growth; common garden experiment; population differentiation; body size; standard length; fish; stickleback; Kuusamo; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.74542; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.40r32

Compensatory growth (CG) may be an adaptive mechanism that helps to restore an organisms’ growth trajectory and adult size from deviations caused by early life resource limitation. Yet, few studies have investigated the genetic basis of CG potential and existence of genetically based population diff...