Out of Gondwanaland; the evolutionary history of cooperative breeding and social behaviour among crows, magpies, jays and allies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1590, 2006, Pages 1117-1125

  Ekman, Jan ^a,b   Ericson, Per G P ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breeding; Cooperative; Corvids; Delayed; Dispersal; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTION; GONDWANA; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; NEW GUINEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; DENDROCITTA; PASSERI; PYRRHOCORAX;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROWS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33746756762     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3431     Document Type: Article

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