Climatic and temporal effects on the expression of secondary sexual characters: Genetic and environmental components

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 634-644

  Garant, Dany ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^a   Gustafsson, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal model; Breeding values; Ficedula albicollis; Heritability; Long term study; NAO index; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EUKARYOTA; FICEDULA; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; PASSERI;

EID: 1842423367     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01685.x     Document Type: Article

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