Habitat-specific sensory-exploitative signals in birds: Propensity of dipteran prey to cause evolution of plumage variation in flush-pursuit insectivores

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2633-2642

  Jabłoński, Piotr G ^a,b,c   Lasater, Kelly ^d   Mumme, Ronald L ^e   Borowiec, Marta ^f   Cygan, Jakub P ^g   Pereira, Janice ^a,h   Sergiej, E W A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^c Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^d Allegheny College ^*  (United States)

^e ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^g MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Escape neurons; Foraging; Local adaptation; Myioborus; Predator prey; Visual signaling

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECTIVORE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; SIGNALING; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FLY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; PIGMENTATION; PREDATION; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; COSTA RICA; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; ESCAPE REACTION; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AVES; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MYIOBORUS; MYIOBORUS PICTUS; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 33846854658     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-363.1     Document Type: Article

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