Limits to speciation inferred from times to secondary sympatry and ages of hybridizing species along a latitudinal gradient

American Naturalist

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 462-469

  Weir, Jason T ^a   Price, Trevor D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Hybrid zones; Latitudinal diversity gradient; Reproductive isolation; Speciation rates; Sympatry

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BARRIER (EQUIPMENT); BIRD; HYBRID ZONE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PARAPATRY; PERMEABILITY; PHYLOGENETICS; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC SPECIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

AVES;

EID: 79953017908     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/658910     Document Type: Article

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