Alternative phenotypes and sexual selection: Can dichotomous handicaps honestly signal quality?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1546, 2004, Pages 1401-1406

  Unrug, Juliusz ^a   Tomkins, Joseph L ^b   Radwan, Jacek ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condition dependence; Genic capture; Lek paradox; Threshold polyphenism

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIGHTING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LEG; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYPHENISM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ACARI; ACARIDAE; ARTHROPODA; SANCASSANIA; SANCASSANIA BERLESEI;

EID: 3042850878     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2729     Document Type: Article

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