Environmental determination of a sexually selected trait

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6742, 1999, Pages 358-360

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; CALCIUM;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; ORNAMENTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; HATCHING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 0033595227     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22536     Document Type: Article

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