Range dynamics, rather than convergent selection, explain the mosaic distribution of red-winged blackbird phenotypes

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4910-4924

  Dufort, Matthew J ^a   Keith Barker, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic expansion; Hybridization; Microsatellite; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889675765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.859     Document Type: Article

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