Clock gene variation is associated with breeding phenology and maybe under directional selection in the migratory barn swallow

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Caprioli, Manuela ^a   Ambrosini, Roberto ^b   Boncoraglio, Giuseppe ^a   Gatti, Emanuele ^a   Romano, Andrea ^a   Romano, Maria ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^a   Gianfranceschi, Luca ^a   Saino, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLOCK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; ITALY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PURIFYING SELECTION; SWALLOW (BIRD); ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; ITALY; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SWALLOWS;

EID: 84859561629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035140     Document Type: Article

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