A strong quantitative trait locus for wing length on chromosome 2 in a wild population of great reed warblers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1692, 2010, Pages 2361-2369

  Tarka, Maja ^a   Åkesson, Mikael ^a   Beraldi, Dario ^b   Hernández Sánchez, Jules ^c   Hasselquist, Dennis ^a   Bensch, Staffan ^a   Hansson, Bengt ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic architecture; Genome scan; Linkage map; Pedigree; Quantitative trait locus; Wing length

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CHROMOSOME; FLIGHT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MIGRATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SOFTWARE; SONGBIRD; WILD POPULATION; WING;

SWEDEN;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; AVES;

EID: 77956481749     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0033     Document Type: Article

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