Evolution on a local scale: Developmental, functional, and genetic bases of divergence in bill form and associated changes in song structure between adjacent habitats

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1951-1964

  Badyaev, Alexander V ^a   Young, Rebecca L ^a   Oh, Kevin P ^a   Addison, Clayton ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bite force; BMP; Bone formation; Local adaptation; Mating signal; Natural selection; Ontogeny; Performance; Song

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

BONE; DESERT; DIVERGENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; ONTOGENY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN; SIGNALING; SIZE; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FINCH; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEAK; BONE AND BONES; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FINCHES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; FRINGILLIDAE;

EID: 47749093554     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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