Coevolution of costly mate choice and condition-dependent display of good genes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1486, 2002, Pages 97-104

  Houle, David ^a   Kondrashov, Alexey S ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition dependence; Deleterious mutation; Good gene; Mate choice; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; COEVOLUTION; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIRD; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MATE CHOICE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAIR BOND; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

AVES;

EID: 1942524745     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1823     Document Type: Article

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