Intense natural selection on body size and wing and tail asymmetry in cliff swallows during severe weather

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1461-1475

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Life history; Morphology; Mortality; Nebraska; Petrochelidon pyrrhonota; Survival

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE EFFECT; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242346727     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb02027.x     Document Type: Article

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