Sexually selected traits predict patterns of species richness in a diverse clade of suboscine birds

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 620-631

  Seddon, Nathalie ^a   Merrill, Richard M ^b   Tobias, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic signals; Dichromatism; Sexual selection; Speciation; Suboscine birds

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; COLOR MORPH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY; PLUMAGE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEATHER; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FEATHERS; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; THAMNOPHILIDAE;

EID: 42549165234     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587071     Document Type: Article

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