Origin and maintenance of mechanosensory feather ornaments

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 637-644

  Seneviratne, Sampath S ^a   Jones, Ian L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aethia; auklet; feather ornament; mechanosensory trait; natural selection; pairwise comparison; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FEATHER; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SEABIRD; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AETHIA; AETHIA CRISTATELLA; AETHIA PUSILLA; AETHIA PYGMAEA; AVES;

EID: 76449106044     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.010     Document Type: Article

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