Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin's cactus finches (

Melanie Kaluppa, Jefferson García-Loor, Alper Yelimlieş, Çağlar Akçay, Sonia Kleindorfer

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Article in Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Melanie KaluppaKonrad Lorenz Research Center for Behavior and Cognition, Core Facility of the University of Vienna, Grünau im Almtal 4645, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0546-4818

Jefferson García-LoorKonrad Lorenz Research Center for Behavior and Cognition, Core Facility of the University of Vienna, Grünau im Almtal 4645, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-9652

Alper YelimlieşKonrad Lorenz Research Center for Behavior and Cognition, Core Facility of the University of Vienna, Grünau im Almtal 4645, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-6141

Çağlar AkçaySchool of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0635-9586

Sonia KleindorferKonrad Lorenz Research Center for Behavior and Cognition, Core Facility of the University of Vienna, Grünau im Almtal 4645, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5130-3122

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Abstract

Understanding the divergence of cultural traits, such as bird song, provides crucial insights into evolutionary processes. In geographically isolated populations, the divergence of traits associated with mate choice can lead to further genetic separation. In this study, we investigate divergence in song syllable types, acoustic structure (e.g. kilohertz frequency), singing behaviour (e.g. number of syllables per song), and morphology in two allopatric populations of Darwin's cactus finch (

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acoustic characteristicsallopatrycultural evolutionDarwin’s finchesmorphologysongspeciation

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PMID42164616

DOI10.1093/biolinnean/blaf098

PMCPMC7619092

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