Character Displacement in Frogs
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Diversification of conspecific signals in sympatry: geographic overlap drives multidimensional reproductive character displacement in frogs.
Theoretical models suggest that geographic overlap with different heterospecific assemblages can promote divergence of mate recognition systems among conspecific populations. Divergence occurs when different traits undergo reproductive character displacement across populations within a contact zone. Here, I tested this hypothesis by assessing patterns of acoustic signal divergence in two- and t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Zoologist
سال: 1974
ISSN: 0003-1569
DOI: 10.1093/icb/14.4.1119