Climate-driven population divergence in sex-determining systems

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7322, 2010, Pages 436-438

  Pen, Ido ^a   Uller, Tobias ^b   Feldmeyer, Barbara ^a,d   Harts, Anna ^a   While, Geoffrey M ^c   Wapstra, Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DIVERGENCE; GENOTYPE; LIFE HISTORY; LIZARD; PARAMETERIZATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; LIFE HISTORY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN;

SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78549279075     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09512     Document Type: Article

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