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: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) 2013
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Birds; Adaptation; Population Genetics - Empirical; Ecological Genetics; Colville River; Alaska; Aaland; Finland; Slettnes; Norway; Bear Island; Svalbard; Spitzbergen; Sennaland; Zackenberg; Greenland; Bylot Island; Canada; Holocene; Stercorarius parasiticus; Stercorarius longicaudus; geo; envir; Arctic; Arctic skua; Long-tailed Skua
• Online Access: 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...