Speeding up microevolution: The effects of increasing temperature on selection and genetic variance in a wild bird population

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Husby, Arild ^a,b   Visser, Marcel E ^c   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPRING; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; TIME;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952259216     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000585     Document Type: Article

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