Evolutionary divergence in brain size between migratory and resident birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Sol, Daniel ^a,b   Garcia, Núria ^a   Iwaniuk, Andrew ^c   Davis, Katie ^d   Meade, Andrew ^e   Boyle, W Alice ^f   Székely, Tamás ^g  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^g University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOLUTION; LIFE CYCLE; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORGAN SIZE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROBABILITY; RISK; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; ORGAN SIZE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; RISK;

EID: 77949662702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009617     Document Type: Article

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