4000 Years of phenotypic change in an island bird: Heterogeneity of selection over three microevolutionary timescales

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2393-2410

  Clegg, Sonya M ^a   Frentiu, Francesca D ^b   Kikkawa, Jiro ^b   Tavecchia, Giacomo ^c   Owens, Ian P F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Directional selection; Displaced optimum; Mark recapture; Microevolutionary rates; Survival; Zosterops

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SIZE; DIVERGENCE; HETEROGENEITY; ISLAND; ISOLATED POPULATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SONGBIRD; TIME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUEENSLAND; SELECTION (GENETICS); SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; ZOSTEROPS; ZOSTEROPS LATERALIS;

EID: 51249111318     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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