Experimental evidence for mutual inter- and intrasexual selection favouring a crested auklet ornament

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 521-528

  Jones, Ian L ^a   Hunter, Fiona M ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DOMINANCE; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AETHIA CRISTATELLA; ALCIDAE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CRISTATELLA;

EID: 0033105589     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1012     Document Type: Article

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