Receiver psychology and the evolution of multicomponent signals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 921-931

  Rowe, Candy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; EVOLUTION; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0032702019     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1242     Document Type: Review

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