Testing whether macroevolution follows microevolution: Are colour differences among swans (Cygnus) attributable to variation at the MC1R locus?

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Pointer, Marie A ^a   Mundy, Nicholas I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME B; DNA; ISOENZYME; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYGNUS ATRATUS; CYGNUS MELANOCORYPHUS; DUCKS AND GEESE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PIGMENTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEATHER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANSER; AVES; COSCOROBA; CYGNUS; CYGNUS ATRATUS; CYGNUS MELANCORYPHUS;

ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEATHERS; ISOENZYMES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 52949144601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-249     Document Type: Article

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