Maternal effects and range expansion: A key factor in a dynamic process?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1520, 2009, Pages 1075-1086

  Duckworth, Renée A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive plasticity; Aggression; Dispersal; Environmental heterogeneity; Maternal effect; Resource competition

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BIRD; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; MATERNAL EFFECT; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RANGE EXPANSION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

SIALIA MEXICANA;

AVIAN PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SONGBIRD;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NORTH AMERICA; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 65649123048     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0294     Document Type: Article

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