Evolutionary significance of geographic variation in a plumage-based foraging adaptation: An experimental test in the slate-throated redstart (Myioborus miniatus)

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1086-1097

  Mumme, Ronald L ^a   Galatowitsch, Mark L ^a   Jabłońsk, Piotr G ^b,c   Stawarczyk, Tadeusz M ^d   Cygan, Jakub P ^e  

^a ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^e MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Asilidae; Flush pursuit foraging; Foraging performance; Geographic variation; Myioborus; Plumage pattern

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PLUMAGE; SELECTION;

BOLIVIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; MONTEVERDE; PUNTARENAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

ASILIDAE; AVES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MYIOBORUS; MYIOBORUS MINIATUS; SETOPHAGA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FEATHER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SOUTH AMERICA; TAIL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEATHERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; NORTH AMERICA; SONGBIRDS; SOUTH AMERICA; TAIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33747067458     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-015.1     Document Type: Article

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