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The genetics of migration on the move.
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 Nov 2011
Liedvogel Miriam, Akesson Susanne, Bensch Staffan
Abstract excerpt
Across a range of organisms, related species or even populations of the same species exhibit strikingly different scales and patterns of movement. A significant proportion of the phenotypic variance in migratory traits is genetic, but the genes involved in shaping these phenotypes are still unknown. Although recent achievements in genomics will evolve migratory genetics research from a phenotypic to a molecular...
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