Primary sex ratio adjustment to experimentally reduced male UV attractiveness in blue tits

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 539-546

  Korsten, Peter ^a   Lessells, C M ^b   Mateman, A Christa ^b   Van Der Velde, Marco ^a   Komdeur, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blue tit Parus caeruleus; Male attractiveness; Primary sex ratio; Sex allocation; Ultraviolet plumage

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MATE ATTRACTION; MATE CHOICE; PLUMAGE; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING;

AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS;

EID: 33745727999     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj061     Document Type: Article

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