Evolution: Selection on heritable phenotypic plasticity in a wild bird population

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5746, 2005, Pages 304-306

  Nussey, Daniel H ^a,b   Postma, Erik ^a   Gienapp, Phillip ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

BREEDING TIMES; CATERPILLAR PREY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

PLASTICITY;

BIRD; EVOLUTION; HERITABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; HERITABILITY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILDLIFE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; WILD ANIMAL;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOOD; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 26844571576     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1117004     Document Type: Article

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