Migration strategy and divergent sexual selection on bird song

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1656, 2009, Pages 585-590

  Collins, Sarah A ^a   De Kort, Selvino R ^b   Pérez Tris, Javier ^c   Tellería, José Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blackcap; Migration; Sexual selection; Song complexity; Sylvia atricapilla; Warbler

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATE CHOICE; MIGRATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HYPODERMA; MALE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AVES; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 58149121656     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1011     Document Type: Article

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