Experimental manipulation shows that the white wing patch in collared flycatchers is a male sexual ornament

Descriptive analysis suggests that a conspicuous white wing patch in dichromatic (black and white) pied and collared flycatchers is under sexual selection. Here, we use an experimental approach to test whether this trait is indeed the target of selection. We caught 100 collared flycatcher Ficedula a...

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Autores principales: de Heij, Maaike E, Gustafsson, Lars, Brommer, Jon E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2011
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22393521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.48

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22393521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.48

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