Evolutionary rates of secondary sexual and non-sexual characters among birds

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 283-303

  Cuervo, José Javier ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Feathers; Rate of evolution; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FEATHER; MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 0033493172     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006733405877     Document Type: Article

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