The role of ecological variation in driving divergence of sexual and non-sexual traits in the red-backed fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus)

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Baldassarre, Daniel T ^a,b   Thomassen, Henri A ^c   Karubian, Jordan ^d   Webster, Michael S ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological selection; Fisher process; Generalized dissimilarity modeling; Isolation by distance; Malurus; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DRIFT; MORPHOMETRY; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

MALURUS; MALURUS MELANOCEPHALUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAIL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SONGBIRDS; TAIL;

EID: 84875348414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-75     Document Type: Article

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