Rapid parallel evolution of aberrant traits in the diversification of the Gulf of Guinea white-eyes (Aves, Zosteropidae)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4953-4967

  Melo, Martim ^a,b,c   Warren, Ben H ^d   Jones, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

adaptive radiation; competition; ecological speciation; oceanic islands; phenotypic change; speciation rates

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GUINEA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; GUINEA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

AVES; DREPANIDINAE; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; SPEIROPS; ZOSTEROPIDAE; ZOSTEROPS;

EID: 81855182062     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05099.x     Document Type: Article

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