Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1766, 2013, Pages

  Seddon, Nathalie ^a   Botero, Carlos A ^b   Tobias, Joseph A ^a   Dunn, Peter O ^c   MacGregor, Hannah E A ^a   Rubenstein, Dustin R ^d   Uy, J Albert C ^e   Weir, Jason T ^f   Whittingham, Linda A ^c   Safran, Rebecca J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^e University of Miami   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative analyses; Evolutionary rates; Plumage dichromatism; Sexual selection; Sister species; Speciation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KINSHIP; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLUMAGE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; FEATHER; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; FEATHERS; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84894442047     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1065     Document Type: Article

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