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Large body size in an island-dwelling bird: a microevolutionary analysis.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Mar 2007

Frentiu F D, Clegg S M, Blows M W, Owens I P F

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Island races of passerine birds display repeated evolution towards larger body size compared with their continental ancestors. The Capricorn silvereye (Zosterops lateralis chlorocephalus) has become up to six phenotypic standard deviations bigger in several morphological measures since colonization of an island approximately 4000 years ago. We estimated the genetic variance-covariance (G) matrix using full-sib...

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PMID: 17305830
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01242.x

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