The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1523, 2003, Pages 1433-1440

  Price, Trevor D ^a   Qvarnström, Anna ^b   Irwin, Darren E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotenoid pigments; Foraging behaviour; Genetic assimilation; Peak shift; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ADAPTATION; CAROTENOID; EVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

EVOLUTION; FORAGING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AVES;

EID: 0038161217     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2372     Document Type: Review

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