Evolution of the courtship phenotype in the bird of paradise genus Parotia (Aves: Paradisaeidae): homology, phylogeny, and modularity

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 491-504

  Scholes III, Edwin ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparity; Display behaviour; Dissociation; Divergence; Duplication; Ethology; Phylogenetic analysis; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; DIVERGENCE; HOMOLOGY; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AVES; CAESALPINIA GILLIESII; PARADISAEIDAE; PAROTIA; STRELITZIA REGINAE;

EID: 45249109511     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01012.x     Document Type: Article

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