Parasites and parallel divergence of individual MHC allelic richness in Icelandic threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.): Contrasting habitats and population divergence

• Main Author: Natsopoulou, Myrsini Eirini, 1985-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Líffræði; Hornsíli; Sníklar; Líffræðilegur fjölbreytileiki; Four Lakes; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/6897

When individuals of a single species encounter different environments, local adaptation and thus phenotypic diversification among populations is expected. This intraspecific diversity, which is common among northern freshwater fish, can be observed even between populations that live in close proximi...