Domesticated birds as a model for the genetics of speciation by sexual selection

Genetica

Volumn 116, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 311-327

  Price, Trevor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Color patterns; Courtship displays; Domestication; Feather ornaments; Mendelian inheritance; Polygenic inheritance; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POULTRY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; PIGMENTATION; POULTRY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0036873618     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021248913179     Document Type: Review

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