Sexual selection, feather breakage and parasites: The importance of white spots in the tail of the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 430-436

  Kose, Mati ^a,b   Møller, Anders Pape ^c  

^a Estonian Inst of Zoology and Botany   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Barn swallows; Costs of secondary sexual characters; Hirundo rustica; Mallophaga; Melanin; Reliable signalling; White tail spots

Indexed keywords

PARASITE; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 0033064671     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050581     Document Type: Article

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