Juvenile infection and male display: Testing the bright male hypothesis across individual life histories

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 722-728

  Borgia, Gerald ^a   Egeth, Marc ^a,b   Uy, J Albert ^a,c   Patricelli, Gail L ^a,d  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Bright male hypothesis; Mate choice; Parasites; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; ECTOPARASITE; LIFE HISTORY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AVES; MENOPONIDAE; MYRSIDEA; PHTHIRAPTERA; PTILONORHYNCHIDAE; PTILONORHYNCHUS VIOLACEUS;

EID: 4344713229     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh067     Document Type: Article

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