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Correlates of male fitness in captive zebra finches - a comparison of methods to disentangle genetic and environmental effects

BACKGOUND: It is a common observation in evolutionary studies that larger, more ornamented or earlier breeding individuals have higher fitness, but that body size, ornamentation or breeding time does not change despite of sometimes substantial heritability for these traits. A possible explanation fo...

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Autores principales: Bolund, Elisabeth, Schielzeth, Holger, Forstmeier, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3229482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22067225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-327