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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 - 28 Mar 2013

Baldassarre Daniel T, Thomassen Henri A, Karubian Jordan, Webster Michael S

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BACKGROUND: Many species exhibit geographic variation in sexual signals, and divergence in these traits may lead to speciation. Sexual signals may diverge due to differences in ecology if the environment constrains signal production or transmission. Alternatively, sexual signals may diverge stochastically through sexual selection or genetic drift, with little environmental influence. To distinguish between these...

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PMID: 23536958
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-75
PMCID: PMC3639809

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