Character displacement: ecological and reproductive responses to a common evolutionary problem

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 253-276

  Pfennig, Karin S ^a   Pfennig, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Coevolution; Coexistence; Competition; Darwinian extinction; Mate choice; Phenotypic plasticity; Reinforcement; Resource polymorphism; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SPECIATION; HUMANS; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70349330222     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605079     Document Type: Review

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