Speciation and feather ornamentation in birds

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 859-869

  Moller A P ^a   Cuervo, J J ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feather ornaments; Fisherian mechanism; Indicator models; Runaway process; Sexual selection; Viability models

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ORNAMENTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES;

EID: 0031948052     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb03710.x     Document Type: Article

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