Bergmann's rule and climate change revisited: Disentangling environmental and genetic responses in a wild bird population

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 13492-13496

  Teplitsky, Céline ^a,b   Mills, James A ^c,e   Alho, Jussi S ^a   Yarrall, John W ^d   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^d Workwrite   (New Zealand)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Animal model; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BERGMANN RULE; BIRD; BODY MASS; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DOCUMENTATION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LARUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE SCOPULINUS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLIMATE; FEMALE; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LARUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE SCOPULINUS; LARUS SCOPULINUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 51649098400     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800999105     Document Type: Article

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