Frequency-dependent physiological trade-offs between competing colour morphs

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 494-497

  Pryke, Sarah R ^a   Astheimer, Lee B ^b   Buttemer, William A ^b   Griffith, Simon C ^a,c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative strategies; Colour polymorphism; Erythrura gouldiae; Immunocompetence; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FINCH; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE; EVOLUTION; FINCHES; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MALE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 35548971574     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0213     Document Type: Article

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