Variation in phenotype, parasite load and male competitive ability across a cryptic hybrid zone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Stuart Fox, Devi ^a   Godinho, Raquel ^b   de Bellocq, Joëlle Goüy ^c   Irwin, Nancy R ^d   Brito, José Carlos ^b   Moussalli, Adnan ^e   Široký, Pavel ^f   Hugall, Andrew F ^g   Baird, Stuart J E ^b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^h CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENDER BIAS; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIZARD; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SKIN COLOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECTROSCOPY;

LACERTA SCHREIBERI; SQUAMATA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MALE; PARASITES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 66249097769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005677     Document Type: Article

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