Rapid sympatry explains greater color pattern divergence in high latitude birds

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 336-347

  Martin, Paul R ^a,b   Montgomerie, Robert ^a   Lougheed, Stephen C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Yanayacu Biological Station   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Color patterns; Differential fusion; Latitudinal gradients; Rates of evolution; Reinforcement; Speciation; Sympatry

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIVERGENCE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR; ECOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COLOR; ECOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

AVES;

EID: 75149151594     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00831.x     Document Type: Article

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