Complex coevolution of wing, tail, and vocal sounds of courting male bee hummingbirds

Phenotypic characters with a complex physical basis may have a correspondingly complex evolutionary history. Males in the “bee” hummingbird clade court females with sound from tail-feathers, which flutter during display dives. On a phylogeny of 35 species, flutter sound frequency evolves as a gradua...

• Main Author: Clark, Christopher (author)
• Other Authors: McGuire, Jimmy (author), Bonaccorso, Elisa (author), Bery, Jacob (author), Prum, Richard (author)
• Format: article
• Language: eng
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.13432; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14809/3476