Song and plumage evolution in the New World orioles (Icterus) show similar lability and convergence in patterns

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 850-863

  Price, J Jordan ^a   Friedman, Nicholas R ^a   Omland, Kevin E ^b  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Animal signals; Bird song; Concerted homoplasy; Convergent evolution; Evolutionary constraint; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; PLUMAGE; SONG; SONGBIRD; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEATHER; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; FEATHERS; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ICTERUS (BIRD); OCYALUS; PSAROCOLIUS;

EID: 34047236343     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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