Sexual selection explains Rensch's rule of size dimorphism in shorebirds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 101, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 12224-12227

  Székely, Tamás ^a   Freckleton, Robert P ^b   Reynolds, John D ^c  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 4344650501     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0404503101     Document Type: Article

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