Cooperative breeding in oscine passerines: Does sociality inhibit speciation?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1530, 2003, Pages 2207-2214

  Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Dispersal; Island endemics; Migration; Oscine passerines; Speciation

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DISPERSAL; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLADISTICS; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHILOPATRY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0242552345     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2503     Document Type: Article

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