Migration phenology and breeding success are predicted by methylation of a photoperiodic gene in the barn swallow
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DOI: 10.1038/srep45412
Abstract: Individuals often considerably differ in the timing of their life-cycle events, with major consequences for individual fitness, and, ultimately, for population dynamics. Phenological variation can arise from genetic effects but also from epigenetic modifications in… read more here.
Keywords: methylation; phenology breeding; breeding success; migration ... See more keywords