Microevolution in island forms: The roles of drift and directional selection in morphological divergence of a passerine bird

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2090-2099

  Clegg, Sonya M ^a,c   Degnan, Sandie M ^a   Moritz, Craig ^a,d   Estoup, Arnaud ^b   Kikkawa, Jiro ^a   Owens, Ian P F ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic drift; Islands; Microsatellites; Morphology; Selection; Zosterops

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; ISLAND; ISOLATED POPULATION; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; ZOSTEROPS; ZOSTEROPS LATERALIS;

EID: 0036808692     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00134.x     Document Type: Article

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