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The Dutch Hunger Winter and the developmental origins of health and disease

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Adaptive radiations—species descended from a common ancestor that are adapted to a wide variety of ecological niches—occur frequently on remote islands where a colonist finds few competitors in an unexploited ecological landscape. We examined ...We investigated whether celebrated cases of evolutionary radiations of passerine birds on islands have produced exceptional morphological diversity relative to comparable-aged radiations globally. Based on eight external measurements, we calculated the ...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012911107

Author: Laura C. Schulz

Institution: University of Missouri

Language: English

Topic: Birth, Development, and Health

Subfield: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

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