Ultraviolet plumage colors predict mate preferences in starlings

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

Volumn 94, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 8618-8621

  Bennett, Andrew T D ^a   Cuthill, Innes C ^a   Partridge, Julian C ^a   Lunau, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATHER; FEMALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STURNIDAE;

EID: 0030739494     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.16.8618     Document Type: Article

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