Ornament size and symmetry: Is the tail a reliable signal of male quality in the red-collared widowbird?

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 366-372

  Goddard, Keith W ^a   Lawes, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; ORNAMENTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EUPLECTENS; EUPLECTENS ARDENS; EUPLECTES ARDENS;

EID: 0034007552     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/117.2.366     Document Type: Article

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