Data from: Molecular population genetics of the melanic plumage polymorphism in arctic skuas (Stercorarius parasiticus): evidence for divergent selection on plumage colour

• Main Authors: Mundy, Nicholas I., Janssen, Kirstin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Birds; Adaptation; Population Genetics - Empirical; Ecological Genetics; Arctic; Bear Island; Bylot Island; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Svalbard; Arctic skua; Spitzbergen; Stercorarius parasiticus; Zackenberg; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.50700; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.tf8rn

The arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) is a classic example of an avian plumage polymorphism, with variation in melanin-based ventral plumage coloration defining pale, intermediate and dark morphs in adults of both sexes. However, despite several decades of field research, there is an incomplete...