Sexually size dimorphic brains and song complexity in passerine birds

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 335-345

  Garamszegi, László Zsolt ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a   Erritzøe, Johannes ^b   Møller, Anders Pape ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Taps Old Rectory ^*  (Denmark)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Bird song; Brain size; Comparative analysis; Generalized least square models; Repertoire size; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; PASSERINE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 14644397312     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh167     Document Type: Article

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