Comparative evidence for costs of secondary sexual characters: Adaptive vane emargination of ornamented feathers in birds

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 296-305

  Moller A P ^a,c   Hedenstrom A ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Ecology Building ^*  (Sweden)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Feather ornaments; Feather vanes; Sexual selection; Vane assymetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442736254     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00034.x     Document Type: Article

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