Multilocus coalescent analysis of haemoglobin differentiation between low- and high-altitude populations of crested ducks (Lophonetta specularioides)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 350-368

  Bulgarella, Mariana ^a,f   Peters, Jeffrey L ^b   Kopuchian, Cecilia ^c   Valqui, Thomas ^d,e   Wilson, Robert E ^a   McCracken, Kevin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^d CENTRO DE ORNITOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD CORBIDI   (Peru)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Andes; gene flow; haemoglobin; hypoxia; Patagonia; South America; waterfowl

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCK; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DUCKS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; HEMOGLOBINS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANAS SPECULARIOIDES; ANATIDAE;

EID: 84855461771     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05400.x     Document Type: Article

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