Nature Communications (May 2018)

Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny

  • Yi-Ting Fang,
  • Mao-Ning Tuanmu,
  • Chih-Ming Hung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04265-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nearly all bird species build nests; however, there is extensive variation in both how and where their nests are built. Here, Fang and colleagues reconstruct the evolution of nest structure, nest site and nest attachment across all extant bird families.