Environmental origins of sexually selected variation and a critique of the fluctuating asymmetry-sexual selection hypothesis

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 577-585

  Polak, Michal ^a   Starmer, William T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila bipectinata; Environmental variation; Fluctuating asymmetry; Genetic variation; Genotype by environment interaction; Sex comb; Sexual selection; Thermal stress; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL SELECTION; TEMPERATURE;

DROSOPHILA BIPECTINATA;

EID: 15944397658     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01017.x     Document Type: Article

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