Convergent evolution of 'creepers' in the Hawaiian honeycreeper radiation

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-224

  Reding, Dawn M ^a,b,e   Foster, Jeffrey T ^a,c   James, Helen F ^a   Pratt, H Douglas ^d   Fleischer, Robert C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Convergent evolution; Ecological convergence; Hawaiian honeycreepers; Hybridization; Mitochondrial DNA introgression

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; OSTEOLOGY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; ETHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER; INTROGRESSION; KAUAI CREEPER; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CERTHIIDAE; DREPANIDINAE; HEMIGNATHUS; LOXOPS (BIRD); OREOMYSTIS BAIRDI; OREOMYSTIS MANA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; HAWAII; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 65349104564     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0589     Document Type: Article

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