New phylogenetic information suggests both an increase and at least one loss of cooperative breeding during the evolutionary history of Aphelocoma jays

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-54

  Berg, Elena C ^a,e   Aldredge, Robert A ^b   Peterson, A Townsend ^c   McCormack, John E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behavioral evolution; Character state reconstruction; Cooperative breeding; Corvidae; Maximum likelihood; Phylogenetic history

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; TIMESCALE;

APHELOCOMA; AVES; CORVIDAE;

EID: 83555173591     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-011-9492-8     Document Type: Article

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