Symmetry: Attractive not only to females

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1425, 1999, Pages 1235-1240

  Hansen, Lars T T ^a,c   Amundsen, Trond ^a   Forsgren, Elisabet ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Artificial ornament; Developmental stability; Fluctuating asymmetry; Luscinia s. svecica; Male mate choice; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; MATE CHOICE; PASSERINE;

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

ANIMALIA; AVES; LUSCINIA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033594939     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0768     Document Type: Article

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