Genetic and Morphometric Divergence of an Invasive Bird: The Introduced House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in Brazil

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Lima, Marcos R ^a   Macedo, Regina H F ^a   Martins, Thaís L F ^b   Schrey, Aaron W ^c   Martin, Lynn B ^c   Bensch, Staffan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAZIL; BREEDING; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE BIRD; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPARROW;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAZIL; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SPARROWS;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84871693009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053332     Document Type: Article

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