Handicap signalling: When fecundity and viability do not add up

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 127-130

  Getty, Thomas ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; HANDICAP SIGNALLING; TRADE-OFF; VIABILITY;

EID: 0032126228     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0744     Document Type: Article

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