Explosive speciation in the New World Dendroica warblers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1429, 1999, Pages 1629-1636

  Lovette, I J ^a   Bermingham, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Dendroica; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeny; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SONGBIRD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DENDROICA; DREPANIDINAE; FRINGILLIDAE; HAWAIIA; PASSERI; PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX;

EID: 0033595328     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0825     Document Type: Article

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