Common garden experiment reveals genetic control of phenotypic divergence between swamp sparrow subspecies that lack divergence in neutral genotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ballentine, Barbara ^a   Greenberg, Russell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SPARROW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SWAMP SPARROW; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WETLAND;

MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA; PASSERIDAE;

DNA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPARROWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WETLANDS;

EID: 77956335968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010229     Document Type: Article

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