A trade-off between reproduction and a condition-dependent sexually selected ornament in the house sparrow Passer domesticus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1448, 2000, Pages 1115-1119

  Griffith, Simon C ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Life history; Ornament expression; Rendition dependence; Sexual selection; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REARING; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034616866     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1116     Document Type: Article

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