Migration phenology and breeding success are predicted by methylation of a photoperiodic gene in the barn swallow

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Saino, Nicola ^a   Ambrosini, Roberto ^b   Albetti, Benedetta ^a   Caprioli, Manuela ^a   De Giorgio, Barbara ^a   Gatti, Emanuele ^b   Liechti, Felix ^c   Parolini, Marco ^a   Romano, Andrea ^a   Romano, Maria ^a   Scandolara, Chiara ^a   Gianfranceschi, Luca ^a   Bollati, Valentina ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWALLOW (BIRD);

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLOCK PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SWALLOWS;

EID: 85016550760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep45412     Document Type: Article

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