Emerging infectious disease selects for darker plumage coloration in greenfinches

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Männiste, Marju ^a   Hõrak, Peeter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Emerging infectious disease; Eumelanin; Fault bars; Pleiotropy; Plumage coloration; Trichomonas gallinae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903908434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00004     Document Type: Article

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