Sexual Selection: Does Condition Dependence Fail to Resolve the 'Lek Paradox'?

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Cotton, Samuel ^a   Pomiankowski, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA CF. SERRATA MS-2004;

EID: 34247397485     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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