Genetic variation and causes of genotype-environment interaction in the body size of blue tit (Parus caeruleus)

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1233-1244

  Merilä, Juha ^a,b   Fry, James D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CROSSES, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031972434     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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