An unexpectedly long history of sexual selection in birds-of-paradise

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Irestedt, Martin ^a   Jønsson, Knud A ^b   Fjeldså, Jon ^b   Christidis, Les ^c,d   Ericson, Per Gp ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARADISAEIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PLIOCENE; POLYGYNY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AVES; CORVOIDEA; PARADISAEIDAE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 70350322685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-235     Document Type: Article

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