Mechanical reproductive isolation facilitates parallel speciation in western North American scincid lizards

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 320-332

  Richmond, Jonathan Q ^a   Jockusch, Elizabeth L ^a   Latimer, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanical isolation; Size assortative mating; Skinks; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY SIZE; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LIZARD; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; COPULATION; FEMALE; LIZARD; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; COPULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIZARDS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH AMERICA; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

ANIMALIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 80051529295     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661240     Document Type: Article

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