Reproductive asynchrony and population divergence between two tropical bird populations

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 755-762

  Moore, Ignacio T ^a   Bonier, Frances ^b   Wingfield, John C ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bird; Dialects; DNA; Estrogen; Evolution; Microsatellite; Migration rate; Reproduction; Song; Speciation; Testosterone; Tropics; Zonotrichia capensis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SEASONALITY;

AVES; PASSERIDAE; VERTEBRATA; ZONOTRICHIA CAPENSIS;

EID: 25444443460     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari049     Document Type: Article

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