Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Ecological and geographical overlap drive plumage evolution and mimicry in woodpeckers

  • Eliot T. Miller,
  • Gavin M. Leighton,
  • Benjamin G. Freeman,
  • Alexander C. Lees,
  • Russell A. Ligon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09721-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Many abiotic and biotic factors shape the macroevolution of phenotype, but these factors are rarely disentangled across large radiations. Here, Miller et al. investigate plumage evolution across woodpeckers, finding influences of habitat and climate, but also convergence apparently driven by mimicry