Female barn owls (Tyto alba) advertise good genes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1446, 2000, Pages 937-941

  Roulin, Alexandre ^a,c   Jungi, Thomas W ^a   Pfister, Hedi ^a   Dijkstra, Cor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barn owls; Genetic quality; Good genes; Ornamentation; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN;

IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; ORNAMENTATION; PLUMAGE; RAPTOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OWL; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

TYTO ALBA;

EID: 0034616510     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1093     Document Type: Article

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