A generalized female bias for long tails in a short-tailed widowbird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1505, 2002, Pages 2141-2146

  Pryke, Sarah R ^a   Andersson, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Euplectes axillaris; Receiver bias; Sexual selection; Tail length; Widowbirds

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION; TAIL FEATHER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAIL; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EUPLECTES; EUPLECTES AXILLARIS; PLOCEINAE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TAIL;

EID: 0037159366     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2131     Document Type: Article

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