Plumage brightness in relation to haematozoan infections in the greenfinch Carduelis chloris: Bright males are a good bet

Ecoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 12-18

  Merilä, Juha ^a,b   Sheldon, Ben C ^a   Lindström, Karin ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Geographic variation; Parasites; Plumage coloration; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

HONEST SIGNALING; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PLUMAGE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EUROPE;

AVES; CARDUELIS CHLORIS; CHLORIS;

EID: 0032728773     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1999.11952203     Document Type: Article

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