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Zebra finch males compensate in plumage ornaments at sexual maturation for a bad start in life

BACKGROUND: An individual's fitness in part depends on the characteristics of the mate so that sexually attractive ornaments, as signals of quality, are used in mate choice. Often such ornaments develop already early in life and thus are affected by nutritional conditions experienced then. Indi...

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Autores principales: Krause, E Tobias, Naguib, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4722338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-12-S1-S11