Accelerated speciation in colour-polymorphic birds (1 Viewer)

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thyoloalethe

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• May 21, 2012

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Hugall & Stuart-Fox 2012. Accelerated speciation in colour-polymorphic birds. Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11050.html

also http://dawn.com/2012/05/11/colourful-birds-quicker-to-evolve-study-2/

Not sure if they're suggesting the Gouldian Finch should be treated as 3 spp. or if it's just headed that way...

 

Richard Klim

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• May 11, 2013

• #2

Colour variation in birds

Delhey, Smith & Peters (in press). Colour-variable birds have broader ranges, wider niches and are less likely to be threatened. J Evol Biol. [abstract] [supp info]

 

Richard Klim

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• Jun 25, 2014

• #3

Origins of carotenoid-pigmented feathers

Thomas, McGraw, Butler, Carrano, Madden & James 2014. Ancient origins and multiple appearances of carotenoid-pigmented feathers in birds. Proc R Soc B 281(1788): 20140806. [abstract]

 

Richard Klim

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• Sep 13, 2014

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Gouldian Finch

Kokko, Griffith & Pryke 2014. The hawk–dove game in a sexually reproducing species explains a colourful polymorphism of an endangered bird. Proc R Soc B 281(1793): 20141794. [abstract]

 

kitefarrago

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• Sep 14, 2014

• #5

Very interesting, Richard! Games as a way of modelling biology has been a bit of a hobby of mine (and I'm very familiar with the Hawk-Dove game used here) so it's very nice to see some research that supports this kind of modelling.

Andrea

 

Richard Klim

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• Oct 18, 2014

• #6

Gouldian Finch

Richard Klim said:

Kokko, Griffith & Pryke 2014. The hawk–dove game in a sexually reproducing species explains a colourful polymorphism of an endangered bird. Proc R Soc B 281(1793): 20141794. [abstract]

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Free access: Kokko et al 2014. [pdf]

 

Richard Klim

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• Oct 18, 2014

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Origins of carotenoid-pigmented feathers

Richard Klim said:

Thomas, McGraw, Butler, Carrano, Madden & James 2014. Ancient origins and multiple appearances of carotenoid-pigmented feathers in birds. Proc R Soc B 281(1788): 20140806. [abstract]

Click to expand...

Free access: Thomas et al 2014. [pdf]

 

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cwbirder

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• Oct 18, 2014

• #8

I think this is probably the correct thread for this post. In the November issue of The American Naturalist there is a paper on sexual selection of dichromatism and diversification.

Huang and Rabosky. 2014. Sexual Selection and Diversification: Reexamining the Correlation between Dichromatism and Speciation Rate in Birds. The American Naturalist Vol. 184, No. 5, pgs E101-E114.

Link:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678054

 

Richard Klim

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• May 14, 2016

• #9

Morphological basis of glossy red plumage colours

Iskandar, Eliason, Astrop, Igic, Maia & Shawkey (in press). Morphological basis of glossy red plumage colours. Biol J Linn Soc. [abstract & supp info]