Social mediation of sexually selected ornamentation and steroid hormone levels in male junglefowl

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 291-298

  Parker, Timothy H ^a   Knapp, Rosemary ^b   Rosenfield, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HORMONE; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; ORNAMENTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0036396766     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3050     Document Type: Article

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