Sexual selection drives rapid divergence in bowerbird display traits

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 273-278

  Uy, J Albert C ^a   Borgia, Gerald ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyornis inornatus; Bowerbirds; Premating isolation; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INDONESIA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; INDONESIA; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS;

AMBLYORNIS INORNATUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PTILONORHYNCHIDAE;

EID: 0034108794     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00027.x     Document Type: Article

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