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Sympatric divergence and clinal variation in multiple coloration traits of Ficedula flycatchers.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Apr 2015
Laaksonen T, Sirkiä P M, Calhim S, Brommer J E, Leskinen P K, Primmer C R, Adamík P, Artemyev A V, Belskii E, Both C, Bureš S, Burgess M D, Doligez B, Forsman J T, Grinkov V, Hoffmann U, Ivankina E, Král M, Krams I, Lampe H M, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin P-A, Sokolov L
Abstract excerpt
Geographic variation in phenotypes plays a key role in fundamental evolutionary processes such as local adaptation, population differentiation and speciation, but the selective forces behind it are rarely known. We found support for the hypothesis that geographic variation in plumage traits of the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca is explained by character displacement with the collared flycatcher Ficedula...
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