The best in all possible worlds? A quantitative genetic study of geographic variation in the meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus

Oikos

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-94

  Hansen, Thomas F ^a   Boonstra, Rudy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY; MATERNAL EFFECT; RODENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS;

EID: 0034068346     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.890109.x     Document Type: Article

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