Hybrid wood warblers, Dendroica striata x Dendroica castanea (Aves: Fringillidae: tribe Parulini) and the diagnostic predictability of avian hybrid phenotypes

dc.contributor.authorGraves, Gary R.
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-20T20:25:49Z
dc.date.available2011-06-20T20:25:49Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.description.abstractThe plumage pattern and color and external morphology of hybrid wood warblers (Dendroica striata X Dendroica castanea) are described. This hybrid combination constitutes the only known case of hybridization between two broadly sympatric species of the genus Dendroica (Fringillidae; Tribe Parulini), that is represented by both male and female specimens in definitive alternate plumage. The plumage of the hybrids exhibited a mosaic of character states that varied in the degree of intermediacy between those of the parental species. External measurements of the hybrids fell within the cumulative ranges of characters of the postulated parental species. I hypothesize that the diagnostic predictability of hybrid phenotypes decreases as an inverse function of genetic relatedness of the hybridizing species.
dc.format.extent373–390
dc.identifier0006-324X
dc.identifier.citationGraves, Gary R. 1996. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/16725">Hybrid wood warblers, Dendroica striata x Dendroica castanea (Aves: Fringillidae: tribe Parulini) and the diagnostic predictability of avian hybrid phenotypes</a>." <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington</em>, 109, (2) 373–390.
dc.identifier.issn0006-324X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10088/16725
dc.publisherBIOL SOC WASHINGTON
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109 (2)
dc.titleHybrid wood warblers, Dendroica striata x Dendroica castanea (Aves: Fringillidae: tribe Parulini) and the diagnostic predictability of avian hybrid phenotypes
dc.typearticle
sro.description.unitNMNH
sro.description.unitNH-Vertebrate Zoology
sro.identifier.itemID75020
sro.identifier.refworksID19859
sro.identifier.urlhttps://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/16725
sro.publicationPlaceWASHINGTON; NAT MUSEUM NAT HIST SMITHSONIAN INST, WASHINGTON, DC 20560

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