Environmental heterogeneity, genotype-by-environment interactions and the reliability of sexual traits as indicators of mate quality

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1659, 2009, Pages 1153-1159

  Higginson, A D ^a   Reader, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental selection; Genotype by environment interactions; Good genes hypothesis; Lek paradox; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HETEROGENEITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 60049091049     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1592     Document Type: Article

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