Recent and widespread rapid morphological change in rodents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Pergams, Oliver R W ^a,b,c   Lawler, Joshua J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c Red Rock Institute Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRECIPITATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RODENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; RODENTIA;

EID: 68149097057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006452     Document Type: Article

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