Female pied flycatchers trade between male quality and mating status in mate choice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1422, 1999, Pages 917-921

  Slagsvold, Tore ^a   Drevon, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ficedula hypoleuca; Mate choice; Plumage colour; Polygyny threshold; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; MATE CHOICE; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR; FEATHER; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033532137     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0724     Document Type: Article

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