Flyway evolution is too fast to be explained by the modern synthesis:Proposals for an 'extended' evolutionary research agenda

• Published in: Journal of Ornithology
• Main Author: Piersma, Theunis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Calidris canutus; Common garden experiment; Epigenetic; Extended synthesis; Migration; Shorebirds; LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATION; KNOTS CALIDRIS-CANUTUS; RED KNOTS; GENETIC-VARIATION; DNA METHYLATION; AVIAN MIGRATION; ANNUAL-CYCLE; BODY-MASS; SHOREBIRD; BEHAVIOR; Random Point
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11370/62f19117-516c-4dcb-8af7-b36e8ba35149; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/62f19117-516c-4dcb-8af7-b36e8ba35149; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-011-0716-z; https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/6766216/2011JOrnitholPiersma.pdf

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. Traditionally,...