Size-dependent asymmetry: Fluctuating asymmetry versus antisymmetry and its relevance to condition-dependent signaling

Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1401-1408

  Rowe, Locke ^a   Repasky, Richard R ^a   Palmer, A Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Quality; Sexual selection; Signaling; Size dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030808752     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01463.x     Document Type: Article

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