Female mate choice across spatial scales: Influence of lek and male attributes on mating success of blue-crowned manakins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1663, 2009, Pages 1875-1881

  Durães, Renata ^a,b   Loiselle, Bette A ^a   Parker, Patricia G ^a   Blake, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Display rate; Fisherian sexual selection; Genetic benefits; Lek size; Lepidothrix coronata; Male quality

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEK; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; PATERNITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLUE CROWN MANAKIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

LEPIDOTHRIX CORONATA;

EID: 66149175696     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1752     Document Type: Article

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