Losses of female song with changes from tropical to temperate breeding in the New World blackbirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1664, 2009, Pages 1971-1980

  Price, J Jordan ^a   Lanyon, Scott M ^b   Omland, Kevin E ^c  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Comparative methods; Duetting; Female bird song; Phylogeny; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LATITUDE; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; TROPICS; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; ICTERIDAE;

EID: 66149191178     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1626     Document Type: Article

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