Islands within an island: Repeated adaptive divergence in a single population

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 653-665

  Langin, Kathryn M ^a,b   Sillett, T Scott ^c   Funk, W Chris ^a   Morrison, Scott A ^d   Desrosiers, Michelle A ^a   Ghalambor, Cameron K ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aphelocoma; Gene flow; Morphological evolution; Natural selection; Population structure

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA CRUZ [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA INSULARIS; AVES; CORVIDAE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BEAK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MALE; OAK; PHENOTYPE; PINE; POPULATION GENETICS; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEAK; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; ISLANDS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PINUS; QUERCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84924872678     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12610     Document Type: Article

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