Female song is widespread and ancestral in songbirds

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Odom, Karan J ^a   Hall, Michelle L ^b   Riebel, Katharina ^c   Omland, Kevin E ^a   Langmore, Naomi E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FEMALE; NEUROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; ANIMAL; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84895789312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4379     Document Type: Article

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