Wild mallards have more "goose-like" bills than their ancestors: A case of anthropogenic influence?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Söderquist, Pär ^a,b   Norrström, Joanna ^a   Elmberg, Johan ^a   Guillemain, Matthieu ^c   Gunnarsson, Gunnar ^a  

^a KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITUATION; INTROGRESSION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SWEDEN; WETLAND; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DUCK; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOMETRY;

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANSER; AVES;

ANIMALS; BEAK; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BREEDING; DUCKS; FEMALE; FINLAND; MALE; NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84918569689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115143     Document Type: Article

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