Male coloration reveals different components of immunocompetence in ostriches, Struthio camelus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1033-1039

  Bonato, Maud ^a   Evans, Matthew R ^b   Hasselquist, Dennis ^c   Cherry, Michael I ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

immunocompetence; male coloration; ostrich; sexual selection; spectrophotometry; Struthio camelus

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COURTSHIP; FEATHER; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; ORNAMENTATION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

STRUTHIO CAMELUS; STRUTHIONIFORMES;

EID: 64549135383     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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