Genetics of rapid and extreme size evolution in Island mice

Genetics

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 213-228

  Gray, Melissa M ^a   Parmenter, Michelle D ^a   Hogan, Caley A ^a   Ford, Irene ^a   Cuthber, Richard J ^c   Ryan, Peter G ^d   Broman, Karl W ^b   Payseur, Bret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Body size; Complex trait; Island evolution; Island syndrome; Phenotypic extreme

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MALE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; ISLANDS; MALE; MICE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84941242448     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.177790     Document Type: Article

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