Sexually selected egg coloration in spotless starlings

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-194

  Soler, Juan J ^a   Navarro, Carlos ^a   Contreras, Tomás Pérez ^a   Avilés, Jesús M ^a   Cuervo, José J ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blue eggs; Differential allocation hypothesis; Egg coloration; Feeding effort; Sexual selection; Spotless starling

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; COLOR MORPH; EGG; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; COLOR; FEATHER; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NESTING; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; STARLING;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COLOR; FEATHERS; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; STARLINGS; WING;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS UNICOLOR;

EID: 40049110128     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524958     Document Type: Article

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