Candidate gene-environment interactions and their relationships with timing of breeding in a wild bird population

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 3628-3641

  Bourret, Audrey ^a   Garant, Dany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

ADCYAP1; Candidate gene; CLOCK; CREB1; GxE; Incubation duration; Laying date; NPAS2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941170788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1630     Document Type: Article

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