Gene expression divergence and nucleotide differentiation between males of different color morphs and mating strategies in the ruff

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2485-2505

  Ekblom, Robert ^a,b   Farrell, Lindsay L ^b,c   Lank, David B ^c   Burke, Terry ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Genomics; Lek; Next generation sequencing; Rna seq; Ruff

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883285260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.370     Document Type: Article

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