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Quantifying Variability of Avian Colours: Are Signalling Traits More Variable?

BACKGROUND: Increased variability in sexually selected ornaments, a key assumption of evolutionary theory, is thought to be maintained through condition-dependence. Condition-dependent handicap models of sexual selection predict that (a) sexually selected traits show amplified variability compared t...

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Autores principales: Delhey, Kaspar, Peters, Anne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2253496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18301766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001689