Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale evolutionary change in a model organism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Silvertown, Jonathan ^a   Cook, Laurence ^b   Cameron, Robert ^c   Dodd, Mike ^a   McConway, Kevin ^a   Worthington, Jenny ^a   Skelton, Peter ^a   Anton, Christian ^d,t   Bossdorf, Oliver ^e   Baur, Bruno ^f   Schilthuizen, Menno ^g   Fontaine, Benoît ^h   Sattmann, Helmut ⁱ   Bertorelle, Giorgio ^j   Correia, Maria ^k   Oliveira, Cristina ^k   Pokryszko, Beata ^l   Ozgo, Małgorzata ^m   Stalažs, Arturs ⁿ   Gill, Eoin ^o   Rammul, Üllar ^p   Sólymos, Péter ^q   Féher, Zoltan ^r   Juan, Xavier ^s   more..

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

ⁱ NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^m POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY IN S UPSK   (Poland)

ⁿ Latvia University of Agriculture   (Latvia)

^o Ireland   (Ireland)

^p TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^r DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^s INS Sant Quirze ^*  (Spain)

^t German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ARTICLE; CEPAEA NEMORALIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOREST; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT; NATURAL SCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SNAIL; THERMOREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION;

CEPAEA NEMORALIS; GASTROPODA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SNAILS;

EID: 79955676369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018927     Document Type: Article

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