Reproductive isolation of sympatric morphs in a population of Darwin's finches

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1619, 2007, Pages 1709-1714

  Huber, Sarah K ^a   De León, Luis Fernando ^b,c   Hendry, Andrew P ^b   Bermingham, Eldredge ^c   Podos, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Adaptive divergence; Adaptive radiation; Assortative mating; Ecological speciation; Genetic divergence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BREEDING SEASON; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ARTICLE; BEAK; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SYMPATRY;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

FRINGILLIDAE; GEOSPIZA FORTIS;

EID: 34548434868     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0224     Document Type: Article

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