Female choice and annual reproductive success favour less-ornamented male house sparrows

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1421, 1999, Pages 765-770

  Griffith, Simon C ^a   Owens, Ian P F ^b   Burke, Terry ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct benefits; Female choice; Mate choice; Passer domesticus; Reproductive success; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033594389     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0703     Document Type: Article

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