Rainfall can explain adaptive phenotypic variation with high gene flow in the New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2397-2412

  Myers, Steven A ^a   Donnellan, Stephen ^b,c   Kleindorfe, Sonia ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Birds; Natural selection and contemporary evolution; Population ecology; Population genetics empirical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875054138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.352     Document Type: Article

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