Good-genes effects in sexual selection

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1414, 1999, Pages 85-91

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Alatalo, Rauno V ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Experiment; Mate preference; Meta analysis; Secondary sexual character; Viability

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SURVIVAL RATE; VARIANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 17744417408     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0607     Document Type: Article

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