Vocal communications and the maintenance of population specific songs in a contact zone

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 7; no. 5; p. e35257
• Main Authors: Rowell, Jonathan T, Servedio, Maria R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 04.05.2012; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal populations; Animal reproduction; Animals; Banding; Biodiversity; Biology; Birds; Birds - classification; Birds - genetics; Clines; Communication; Dialects; Diffusion; Fathers; Female; Females; Gene flow; Gene mutation; Hybridization; Learning; Male; Males; Mating; Models, Biological; Morphology; Mosaics; Mutation; Passeri; Populations; Sexual Behavior, Animal; Singing; Song; Songbirds; Spatial Behavior; Spatial distribution; Speciation; Species Specificity; Studies; Vocalization behavior; Vocalization, Animal; North Carolina; United States > US

Bird song has been hypothesized to play a role in several important aspects of the biology of songbirds, including the generation of taxonomic diversity by speciation; however, the role that song plays in speciation within this group may be dependent upon the ability of populations to maintain popul...