Sexual Selection and Diversification: Reexamining the Correlation between Dichromatism and Speciation Rate in Birds

Theory predicts that sexual selection can serve as an important driver of speciation, but phylogenetic comparative analyses have failed to demonstrate a consistent effect of sexual selection on species richness at macroevolutionary scales. Sexual dichromatism in birds is an example of a phenotypic t...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American naturalist 2014-11, Vol.184 (5), p.E101-E114
Hauptverfasser:	Huang, Huateng, Rabosky, Daniel L.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal reproduction Animals Aves Biodiversity Biological Evolution Biological taxonomies Birds Birds - physiology Color Correlation analysis E-Article Evolution Genetic Speciation Mating Preference, Animal Phenotype Phylogenetics Phylogeny Plumage Population ecology Sexual Behavior Sexual selection Speciation Species
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