Exploring plasticity in the wild: Laying date-temperature reaction norms in the common gull Larus canus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1635, 2008, Pages 687-693

  Brommer, Jon E ^a   Rattiste, Kalev ^b   Wilson, Alastair J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal model; Phenotypic plasticity; Quantitative genetics; Random regression

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEABIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTONIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LARUS CANUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; LARUS CANUS;

EID: 38849100222     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0951     Document Type: Article

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