Conserved Genetic Basis of a Quantitative Plumage Trait Involved in Mate Choice

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5665, 2004, Pages 1870-1873

  Mundy, Nicholas I ^a   Badcock, Nichola S ^b   Hart, Tom ^b   Scribner, Kim ^c   Janssen, Kirstin ^d   Nadeau, Nicola J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GENES;

BIRDS; POLYMORPHISMS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETICS; MATE CHOICE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING METHOD; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATE CHOICE; MC1R GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIRDS; COLOR; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; FEMALE; GEESE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ANSER; ANSER CAERULESCENS; AVES; CATHARACTA; CHEN; STERCORARIUS; STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS;

EID: 1642300825     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093834     Document Type: Article

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