Mate choice by female red junglefowl: The issues of multiple ornaments and fluctuating asymmetry

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-50

  Ligon, J David ^a   Kimball, Rebecca ^a   Merola Zwartjes, Michele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; RED JUNGLEFOWL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031959966     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0582     Document Type: Article

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