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Age before beauty? Relationships between fertilization success and age-dependent ornaments in barn swallows
When males become more ornamented and reproduce more successfully as they grow older, phenotypic correlations between ornament exaggeration and reproductive success can be confounded with age effects in cross-sectional studies, and thus say relatively little about sexual selection on these traits. T...
Autores principales: | Lifjeld, Jan T., Kleven, Oddmund, Jacobsen, Frode, McGraw, Kevin J., Safran, Rebecca J., Robertson, Raleigh J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer-Verlag
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21949464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-011-1176-4 |
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