Postglacial population expansion drives the evolution of long-distance migration in a songbird

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2403-2409

  Milá, Borja ^a   Smith, Thomas B ^a   Wayne, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of migration; Holocene; Junco; Phylogeography; Postglacial expansion; Spizella

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POSTGLACIAL; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPARROW; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HAPLOTYPES; POPULATION GROWTH; SPARROWS; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CENTRAL AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; JUNCO PHAEONOTUS; PASSERI; SPIZELLA; SPIZELLA PASSERINA;

EID: 33845515325     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-153.1     Document Type: Article

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