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Natural selection and genetic variation for reproductive reaction norms in a wild bird population.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jun 2005
Brommer Jon E, Merilä Juha, Sheldon Ben C, Gustafsson Lars
Abstract excerpt
Many morphological and life-history traits show phenotypic plasticity that can be described by reaction norms, but few studies have attempted individual-level analyses of reaction norms in the wild. We analyzed variation in individual reaction norms between laying date and three climatic variables (local temperature, local rainfall, and North Atlantic Oscillation) of 1126 female collared flycatchers (Ficedula...
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