Accelerated speciation in colour-polymorphic birds

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7400, 2012, Pages 631-634

  Hugall, Andrew F ^a,b   Stuart Fox, Devi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Sciences Department   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COLOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAWK; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; OWL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; GENETICS; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SONGBIRD; TIME;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; COLOR; GENETIC SPECIATION; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863760815     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11050     Document Type: Article

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