Mating patterns of Darwin's Finch hybrids determined by song and morphology

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 317-343

  Grant, Peter R ^a   Grant, B Rosemary ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backcrossing; Cultural inheritance; Introgression; Sexual imprinting; Size; Song

Indexed keywords

FRINGILLIDAE; GEOSPIZA FORTIS; GEOSPIZA FULIGINOSA; GEOSPIZA SCANDENS;

EID: 0030874419     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0103     Document Type: Article

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