Darwins Galápagos finches in modern biology

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1543, 2010, Pages 1001-1007

  Abzhanov, Arhat ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Darwins finches; Evolution; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HYBRIDIZATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; ORIGIN OF LIFE; SONGBIRD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIODIVERSITY; ECUADOR; EVOLUTION; FINCH; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BEAK; BIODIVERSITY; ECUADOR; EVOLUTION; FINCHES; GENETIC SPECIATION;

EID: 77950806383     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0321     Document Type: Article

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