Contemporary and historical separation of transequatorial migration between genetically distinct seabird populations

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rayner, Matt J ^a,b   Hauber, Mark E ^c   Steeves, Tammy E ^d   Lawrence, Hayley A ^e   Thompson, David R ^a   Sagar, Paul M ^a   Bury, Sarah J ^a   Landers, Todd J ^b,f   Phillips, Richard A ^g   Ranjard, Louis ^b,h   Shaffer, Scott A ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

^g BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

ⁱ SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PTERODROMA COOKII; SEABIRD; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIRD; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

PTERODROMA COOKII;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEASONS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 79958739167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1330     Document Type: Article

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