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Himalayan black bulbuls (Hypsipetes leucocephalus niggerimus) exhibit sexual dichromatism under ultraviolet light that is invisible to the human eye

Sexual dichromatism is a key proxy for the intensity of sexual selection. Studies of dichromatism in birds may, however, have underestimated the intensity and complexity of sexual selection because they used museum specimens alone without taking colour-fading into account or only measured conspicuou...

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Autores principales: Hung, Hsin-Yi, Yeung, Carol K. L., Omland, Kevin E., Yao, Cheng-Te, Yao, Chiou-Ju, Li, Shou-Hsien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28382942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43707