A performance constraint on the evolution of trilled vocalizations in a songbird family (Passeriformes: Emberizidae)

Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 537-551

  Podos, Jeffrey ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; constraints; Emberizidae; evolution of behavior; performance; vocalization

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT; SONG; TRILL; VOCALIZATION;

EMBERIZIDAE;

EID: 0030617984     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb02441.x     Document Type: Article

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