Intense natural selection on morphology of cliff swallows (petrochelidon pyrrhonota) a decade later: Did the population move between adaptive peaks?

Auk

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-77

  Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a   Brown, Charles R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Cliff Swallow; Episodic selection; Fluctuating asymmetry; Morphological evolution; Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; FOOD SUPPLY; NATURAL SELECTION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SURVIVAL; WING MORPHOLOGY;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA;

EID: 79954533089     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2011.10219     Document Type: Article

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