Flyway evolution is too fast to be explained by the modern synthesis: proposals for an `extended? evolutionary research agenda

• Published in: Journal of Ornithology
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2012
• Subjects: Calidris canutus; Common garden experiment; Epigenetic; Extended synthesis; Migration; Shorebirds; Random Point
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/63690; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-011-0716-z

Abstract In this paper, I argue that to fully grasp the generation and maintenance of variation in the migratory phenotypes of (shore-)birds we need to expand our scientific search image and include developmental processes and non-genetic pathways of inheritance in the explanatory frameworks. Tradit...