Morphometric differentiation across House Sparrow Passer domesticus populations in Finland in comparison with the neutral expectation for divergence

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Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 846-857

  Kekkonen, Jaana ^a   Jensen, Henrik ^b   Brommer, Jon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Evolution; Microsatellites; P ST F ST comparison; Phenotypic divergence; Selection

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; NATURAL SELECTION; ORNITHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SONGBIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

FINLAND;

IBIS; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84866461096     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01252.x     Document Type: Article

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