The Development of geographic song preferences in female song sparrows melospiza melodia

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 513-521

  Hernandez, Alexandra M ^a,b   Pfaff, Jeremy A ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Elizabeth A ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HERITABILITY; LEARNING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERI;

EID: 65649138826     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01642.x     Document Type: Article

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