Sex ratio adjustment in relation to paternal attractiveness in a wild bird population

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 11723-11728

  Ellegren, Hans ^a   Gustafsson, Lars ^b   Sheldon, Ben C ^a,b,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ficedula albicollis; sex allocation; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; FEMALE; MALE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SWEDEN; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029859296     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.21.11723     Document Type: Article

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