Morphological Heritability in a Hybrid Bunting Complex: Nesospiza at Inaccessible Island

Abstract Juvenile Nesospiza buntings measured 7–11 weeks after hatching were compared with the sizes of their parents to estimate the heritability (h2) of six external morphological characters. There was no evidence of size selection before juveniles were seven weeks old, but some additional growth...

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Published in:The Condor
Main Author: Ryan, Peter G.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2001
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/condor/103.3.429
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