Blue and green egg-color intensity is associated with parental effort and mating system in passerines: Support for the sexual selection hypothesis

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 636-644

  Soler, Juan J ^a   Moreno, Juan ^b   Avilés, Jesús M ^a   Møller, Anders P ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Egg color evolution; Hole nesters; Mating systems; Postmating sexual selection; Predation; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLOR; EGG; EVOLUTION; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 15944387424     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01022.x     Document Type: Article

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