Evolution: Assortative mating as a mechanism for rapid evolution of a migratory divide

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5747, 2005, Pages 502-504

  Bearhop, Stuart ^a   Fiedler, Wolfgang ^b   Furness, Robert W ^c   Votier, Stephen C ^e   Waldron, Susan ^d   Newton, Jason ^f   Bowen, Gabriel J ^g   Berthold, Peter ^b   Farnsworth, Keith ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; BREEDING; WINTERING QUARTERS;

ISOTOPES;

BIODIVERSITY;

EVOLUTION; ISOLATED POPULATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; OVERWINTERING;

ALLOPATRY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BIRD; BREEDING; EVOLUTION; GENE SEGREGATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATRY; VERTEBRATE; WINTER; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; VERTEBRATA;

CARBON; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 27144476441     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115661     Document Type: Article

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