Climate change drives microevolution in a wild bird

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Karell, Patrik ^a   Ahola, Kari ^b   Karstinen, Teuvo ^c   Valkama, Jari ^d   Brommer, Jon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Tornihaukantie 8D 72   (Finland)

^c NONE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEOMELANIN; MELANIN; SNOW;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HERITABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OWL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN COLOR; SURVIVAL; WINTER; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION;

AVES; STRIX ALUCO;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MELANINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PIGMENTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SNOW; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 79952021105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1213     Document Type: Article

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