Neutral markers mirror small-scale quantitative genetic differentiation in an avian island population

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 867-875

  Postma, Erik ^a,b,c   Den Tex, Robert Jan ^b,d   Van Noordwijk, Arie J ^b   Mateman, A Christa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clutch size; F statistics; Gene flow; Great tit; Immigration; Microsatellite; Parus major

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; BIRD; CLUTCH SIZE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; ISLAND; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 68349157241     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01252.x     Document Type: Article

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