Environmental Heterogeneity Generates Fluctuating Selection on a Secondary Sexual Trait

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 751-757

  Robinson, Matthew R ^a,b   Pilkington, Jill G ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^c   Pemberton, Josephine M ^a   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORN; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHEEP; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORNS; LONGEVITY; MALE; SCOTLAND; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 43649095993     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.059     Document Type: Article

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