Developmental stability covaries with Genome-Wide and Single-Locus heterozygosity in house sparrows

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Vangestel, Carl ^a   Mergeay, Joachim ^b   Dawson, Deborah A ^c   Vandomme, Viki ^a   Lens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPARROW; URBAN AREA; ANIMAL; CITY; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

ANIMALS; CITIES; ECOLOGY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SPARROWS;

EID: 79959788050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021569     Document Type: Article

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