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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...
Autores principales: | Krause, E Tobias, Naguib, Marc |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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