Redness as a measure of the production cost of ornamental coloration

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-175

  Hill, Geoffrey E ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sexual selection; ornaments; carotenoids; plumage color; sexual dichromatism; cardueline finches

Indexed keywords

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; GALLIFORMES; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029768016     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1996.9522926     Document Type: Article

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