Heterozygosity predicts clutch and egg size but not plasticity in a house sparrow population with no evidence of inbreeding

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 406-420

  Wetzel, Daniel P ^a   Stewart, Ian R K ^a,b   Westneat, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

heritability; heterozygosity fitness correlation; microsatellite; Passer domesticus; plasticity; reaction norm

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUTCH SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; NORTH AMERICA; OOCYTE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SPARROW;

ANIMALS; CLUTCH SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NORTH AMERICA; OVUM; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPARROWS;

ANIMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84855433016     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05380.x     Document Type: Article

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