Geography of fluctuating asymmetry in the greenfinch, Carduelis chloris

Oikos

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 507-516

  Karvonen, Eevi ^a   Merilä, Juha ^b   Rintamäki, Pekka T ^a   Van Dongen, Stefan ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c JANSSEN RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PASSERINE;

EUROPE;

AVES; CARDUELIS; CARDUELIS CHLORIS; CHLORIS; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037609313     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.11851.x     Document Type: Article

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