Wild Mallards Have More “Goose-Like” Bills Than Their Ancestors: A Case of Anthropogenic Influence?

Wild populations of the world’s most common dabbling duck, the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), run the risk of genetic introgression by farmed conspecifics released for hunting purposes. We tested whether bill morphology of free-living birds has changed since large-scale releases of farmed mallards st...

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Autores principales: Söderquist, Pär, Norrström, Joanna, Elmberg, Johan, Guillemain, Matthieu, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25514789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115143

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25514789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115143

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