Agricultural management affects evolutionary processes in a migratory songbird

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1248-1255

  Perlut, Noah G ^b,d   Freeman Gallant, Corey R ^c   Strong, Allan M ^d   Donovan, Therese M ^a,d   Kilpatrick, C William ^d   Zalik, Nathan J ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit   (United States)

^c SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural management; Evolutionary processes; Female breeding synchrony; Savannah sparrow; Sexual selection; Social and genetic mating systems

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPARROW;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INVERTEBRATES; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPARROWS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMMODRAMUS SANDWICHENSIS; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS; PASSERI;

EID: 39749105382     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03695.x     Document Type: Article

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