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| Title |
An unexpectedly long history of sexual selection in birds-of-paradise
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-9-235 |
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| Authors |
Martin Irestedt, Knud A Jønsson, Jon Fjeldså, Les Christidis, Per GP Ericson |
| Abstract |
The birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae) form one of the most prominent avian examples of sexual selection and show a complex biogeographical distribution. The family has accordingly been used as a case-study in several significant evolutionary and biogeographical syntheses. As a robust phylogeny of the birds-of-paradise has been lacking, these hypotheses have been tentative and difficult to assess. Here we present a well supported species phylogeny with divergence time estimates of the birds-of-paradise. We use this to assess if the rates of the evolution of sexually selected traits and speciation have been excessively high within the birds-of-paradise, as well as to re-interpret biogeographical patterns in the group. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 197 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 14% |
| Researcher | 27 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 31 | 15% |
| Unknown | 43 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 124 | 60% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 10 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 1% |
| Psychology | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 8 | 4% |
| Unknown | 46 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 February 2024.
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#319
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#3,494
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#3
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