Replicated population divergence caused by localized coevolution? A test of three hypotheses in the red crossbill-lodgepole pine system

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1651-1659

  Edelaar, P ^a,b,c,d   Benkman, C W ^a,e  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Arms race; Divergent selection; Ecological speciation; Geographic mosaic of coevolution; Loxia curvirostra; Pinus contorta; Population differentiation; Replicated evolution

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COEVOLUTION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIVERGENCE; ISOLATED POPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; SCIURIDAE; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; PASSERIFORMES; PINUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SCIURIDAE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

LOXIA; LOXIA CURVIROSTRA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS CONTORTA LATIFOLIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 33747230357     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01113.x     Document Type: Article

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