Background Taxonomy is the biological discipline that identifies, describes, classifies and
names extant and extinct species and other taxa. Nowadays, species taxonomy is …

Animal coloration is a powerful model for studying the genetic mechanisms that determine
phenotype. Genetic crosses of laboratory mice have provided extensive information about …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Alkatib, S., Scharff, LB, Rogalski, M., Fleischmann, TT, Matthes, A., Seeger, S., Schöttler, MA,
Ruf, S. & Bock, R.(2012) The contributions of wobbling and superwobbling to the reading of …

INTRODUCTION Organisms in the early stages of speciation provide an opportunity to
understand the processes that govern reproductive isolation between taxa. Ecological or …

Animals that occupy temperate and polar regions have specialized traits that help them
survive in harsh, highly seasonal environments. One particularly important adaptation is …

This chapter reviews current understanding of the genetic basis of speciation. Much
progress has been made in the past several decades in uncovering how new species arise …

Convergence—the independent evolution of the same trait by two or more taxa—has long
been of interest to evolutionary biologists, but only recently has the molecular basis of …

Establishing the links between phenotype and genotype is of great importance for resolving
key questions about the evolution, maintenance and adaptive function of phenotypic …

Recent genomic analyses of evolutionary radiations suggest that ancestral or standing
genetic variation may facilitate rapid diversification, particularly in cases involving …