Ecological speciation along an elevational gradient in a tropical passerine bird?

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 357-374

  Caro, L M ^a   Caycedo Rosales, P C ^b   Bowie, R C K ^c   Slabbekoorn, H ^d   Cadena, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Allopatric speciation; Assortative mating; Gene flow; Natural selection; Parapatric speciation; Secondary contact

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; ASSORTATIVE MATING; COLONIZATION; COMMON ANCESTRY; DIVERGENCE; ELEVATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; HYBRIDIZATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PARAPATRY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SONG; SONGBIRD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPIC CLIMATE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

COLOMBIA; SIERRA DE SANTA MARTA [COLOMBIA];

AVES; HENICORHINA LEUCOPHRYS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84872608800     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12055     Document Type: Article

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