Sexual selection for white tail spots in the barn swallow in relation to habitat choice by feather lice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1201-1205

  Kose, Mati ^b   Mänd, Raivo ^b   Møller, Anders Pape ^a  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE; PASSERINE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL;

AVES; CENTROBERYX LINEATUS; HIRUNDINIDAE; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; MALLOPHAGA; PASSERIFORMES; PHTHIRAPTERA; PIERIS BRASSICAE;

EID: 19244372600     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1249     Document Type: Article

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