Is microevolution the only emergency exit in a warming world? Temperature influences egg laying but not its underlying mechanisms in great tits

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 190, Issue , 2012, Pages 164-169

  Caro, Samuel P ^a   Schaper, Sonja V ^a   Dawson, Alistair ^b   Sharp, Peter J ^c   Gienapp, Phillip ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Cyanistes caeruleus; Heritability; Parus major; Phenology

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HERITABILITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MOLTING; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; SIBLING;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; HERITABILITY; PARUS MAJOR; PHENOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; OVIPOSITION; PASSERIFORMES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84882877172     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.02.025     Document Type: Article

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