Behavioral drive or behavioral inhibition in evolution: Subspecific diversification in holarctic passerines

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2669-2677

  Sol, Daniel ^a,b   Stirling, D Gray ^a   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Behavioral flexibility; Evolutionary diversification; Geographical speciation; Passerines; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DIVERGENCE; PASSERINE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; PASSERIFORMES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 30344462341     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-196.1     Document Type: Article

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