Female preferences for long tails constrained by species recognition in short-tailed red bishops

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1116-1121

  Pryke, Sarah R ^a   Andersson, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Euplectes; Receiver bias; Sexual selection; Species recognition; Tail length

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; GENE EXPRESSION; MATE CHOICE; MATE RECOGNITION; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EUPLECTES; EUPLECTES ORIX;

EID: 56449120843     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn100     Document Type: Article

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