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Divergence in vocalizations indicates cryptic speciation in Camptostoma tyrannulets
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Rafael Dantas Lima and Ruan Vieira Vaz
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Ornithology
Ornithology, ukae058, https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukae058
Published: 22 November 2024
..., Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) ABSTRACT The tyrant flycatcher genus Camptostoma currently comprises 2 visually similar species: C. imberbe (Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet), ranging from the southern United States...
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The morphing of dictators: why dictators get worse over time
Kaushik Basu
Oxford Open Economics, Volume 2, 2023, odad002, https://doi.org/10.1093/ooec/odad002
Published: 14 February 2023
... the corrupt tyrant, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, morph into a creature similar to the one he overthrew? Was it a case of one freak individual and his psychology, or is there something generic about authoritarianism that makes it deteriorate over time. The model that follows is an exercise in atonement through...
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Introgression and Phenotypic Assimilation in Zimmerius Flycatchers (Tyrannidae): Population Genetic and Phylogenetic Inferences from Genome-Wide SNPs
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Frank E. Rheindt and others
Systematic Biology, Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2014, Pages 134–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syt070
Published: 25 December 2013
... 18 11 2013 The Author(s) 2013. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Society of Systematic Biologists. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2013 gene flow hybridization Zimmerius tyrant-flycatcher We sampled 2 Z...
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A Molecular Phylogeny of Black-Tyrants (Tyrannidae: Knipolegus) Reveals Strong Geographic Patterns and Homoplasy in Plumage and Display Behavior
Peter A. Hosner and Robert G. Moyle
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Ornithology
The Auk, Volume 129, Issue 1, 1 January 2012, Pages 156–167, https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2012.11101
Published: 01 January 2012
... 2011 10 12 2011 © The American Ornithologists' Union, 2012. 2012 Abstract We present the first molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for Knipolegus (black-tyrants), a widespread genus of South American tyrant-flycatchers, based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Bayesian...
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Effects of Snow-Related Environmental Variation on Breeding Schedules and Productivity of a High-Altitude Population of Dusky Flycatchers (Empidonax oberholseri)
Maria E. Pereyra
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Ornithology
The Auk, Volume 128, Issue 4, 1 October 2011, Pages 746–758, https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2011.10144
Published: 01 October 2011
... plasticity climate change clutch size Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri environmental factors reproductive success Sierra Nevada snowpack timing of breeding tyrant flycatchers warming BIRDS THAT BREED at high latitude and high elevation are often highly responsive...
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Male and Female Reproductive Success in a Threatened Polygynous Species: The Strange-Tailed Tyrant, Alectrurus risora
Adrian S. Di Giacomo and others
The Condor, Volume 113, Issue 3, 1 August 2011, Pages 619–628, https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2011.100067
Published: 01 August 2011
...Adrian S. Di Giacomo; Alejandro G. Di Giacomo; Juan C. Reboreda Abstract. The Strange-tailed Tyrant (Alectrurus risora) is an endangered obligate grassland bird that inhabits savannas, wet grasslands and marshes in southern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. We evaluated the extent...
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Palatablility and escaping ability in Neotropical butterflies: tests with wild kingbirds (Tyrannus melancholicus, Tyrannidae)
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Carlos E.G. Pinheiro
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 59, Issue 4, December 1996, Pages 351–365, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1996.tb01471.x
Published: 14 January 2008
... as alternative strategies to avoid predation by birds. Mimetic relationships among several species are discussed. Evidence for the evolution of aposematism not related to unpalatability, but to escaping ability, was found for two hard-to-catch Morpho species. tyrant-flycatchers predation butterfly...
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Molecular Phylogenetics of The Tody-Tyrant and Flatbill Assemblage of Tyrant Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Jose G. Tello and John M. Bates
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Ornithology
The Auk, Volume 124, Issue 1, 1 January 2007, Pages 134–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/124.1.134
Published: 01 January 2007
... mosquiteros. β-fibrinogen intron 5 cytochrome b flatbills mitochondrial DNA ND2 ND3 nuclear DNA phylogeny tody-tyrants Tyrannidae tyrant flycatchers Fig. 1. Hypotheses of relationships for the tody-tyrant and flatbill assemblage: (A) Lanyon's (1988a) intergeneric relationships, based...
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First Documentation of Combinatorial Song Syntax in a Suboscine Passerine Species
Daniel W. Leger
The Condor, Volume 107, Issue 4, 1 November 2005, Pages 765–774, https://doi.org/10.1093/condor/107.4.765
Published: 01 November 2005
.... Combinatorial syntax has been documented only in the songs of oscine passerines and in one nonpasserine, but not in the suboscine passerines. Dawn and day songs of a tyrant flycatcher, the Flammulated Attila (Attila flammulatus), were recorded in Costa Rica. Flexible syntax was noted in both dawn...
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Difficulties Storing and Preserving Tyrant Flycatcher Blood Samples used for Genetic Analyses
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Kelvin F. Conrad and others
The Condor, Volume 102, Issue 1, 1 February 2000, Pages 191–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/condor/102.1.191
Published: 01 February 2000
... may occur with nestling blood of other tyrant flycatchers and suggest that to minimize loss of data, DNA should be extracted from tyrant flycatcher blood samples as soon as possible after they have been collected. 1 10 1998 25 10 1999 © The Cooper Ornithological Society 2000 2000 Abstract We...
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Phylogenetic Relationships of the Cinnamon Tyrant, Neopipo cinnamomea, to the Tyrant Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
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Jason A. Mobley and Richard O. Prum
The Condor, Volume 97, Issue 3, 1 August 1995, Pages 650–662, https://doi.org/10.2307/1369174
Published: 01 August 1995
..., formerly placed in the manakins (Pipridae), to the Empidonax assemblage of tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae; Lanyon 1986, 1988a). The results demonstrate that Neopipocinnamomea is not a manakin, but a member of the Myiophobus group of tyrannids, which includes...
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3 The Good, the Bad, and the In‐Between
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Ingo Gildenhard
Published: 25 November 2010
...This chapter explores how Cicero construes, respectively, ‘the good’ (especially his theory of the vir bonus ) and ‘the bad’ (especially his notion of immanes naturae and naturally born tyrants)—as well as those who fall in between, i.e. are neither naturally...
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Published: 19 July 2018
... Poseidon Freud Sigmund stasimon choral ode Sophocles Oedipus tyrant self-knowledge aging death oracles character fate Athens Sophocles probably saw himself mainly as a poet. He must have been reputed to be a wise man as well, for he was elected or appointed to important positions in Athenian...
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Published: 03 December 2009
... is to open the way to a divine command morality. On that view, it seems, God would have no obligations, since he is under no commands; and he is more like a tyrant than a loving and loveable father. Religion is in trouble either way. Hume would hardly object. Hume notoriously criticized religion and its...
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The English Political Writings
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Paul Hammond
Published: 29 May 2014
... Paulina Prynne William Shakespeare William Tilmouth Christopher Milton people Hobbes regicide tyrant Throughout the 1640s there was an impassioned debate in England about the locus of sovereignty and the origin of legitimate government. Supporters of the monarchy derived kingly authority from God...
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Published: 15 May 2018
...Translation of and interpretive essay on the Hiero or the Skilled Tyrant . This dialogue between the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides contains Xenophon’s most sustained consideration of tyranny. It focuses on two questions: whether tyrannical life is preferable to private life...
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Big Tiger, Tyrant of the Mountain
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Brian DeMare
Published: 16 August 2022
...This chapter explores the downfall of Big Tiger, a local thug charged as an evil tyrant by the Communists in the first years of the People’s Republic of China. His story reveals much about rural life, both before and after the arrival of the Communists. We see how the Nationalists relied on unpaid...
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Beyond paganism and politics
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Peter Lake
Published: 21 July 2020
... for murder. It also looks into Saturninus' failure to observe the conventional legal structures as a central aspect of his emergence as a tyrant. Hutson Lorna murder pamphlet genre of providence Shakespeare William Titus Andronicus tyranny Ovid Philomel Tereus conscience English Catholics...
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The Law’s First Subjects: Animal Stakeholders, Human Tyranny, and the Political Life of Early Modern Genesis
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Laurie Shannon
Published: 10 December 2012
...During Shakespeare’s time, attributions of a wild and “beastly” ferocity, or an animalistic taste for blood of tyrants, were received merely as common rhetoric. A tyrant, as John Ponet called him after all, was a “monstre and a cruell beast covered with the shape of a man.” However, Bottom’s...
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A “Three Tail’d Bashaw” Bluebeard Takes a Turkish Turn
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Casie E. Hermansson
Published: 20 July 2009
...In Charles Perrault’s French fairy tale, Bluebeard is not only mistaken for a pirate but also often described as a beturbaned Turkish tyrant. But it was only in the eighteenth century that Bluebeard became a “three tail’d Bashaw,” and he certainly did not get any of his eastern cast from Perrault...
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