Heterotic effects on fitness in a wild bird population

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 269-280

  Merilä, Juha ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^b,c   Griffith, Simon C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROSIS; POPULATION GENETICS;

AVES; FICEDULA; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 0037632075     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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