Ecological character displacement in the face of gene flow: Evidence from two species of nightingales

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Reifová, Radka ^a   Reif, Jií ^b,c   Antczak, Marcin ^d   Nachman, Michael W ^e  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Environmental Centre   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BERGMANN RULE; BODY SIZE; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FEEDING GROUND; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLAND; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLAND; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 79956261000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-138     Document Type: Article

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