The evolution of individual variation in communication strategies

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3123-3133

  Botero, Carlos A ^a,b   Pen, Ido ^b   Komdeur, Jan ^a   Weissing, Franz J ^b  

^a National Evolutionary Synthesis Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Badges of status; Behavioral syndromes; Disruptive selection; Honest signaling; Norms of reaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COEVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; POLYMORPHISM; SELECTION; SIGNAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77958599975     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01065.x     Document Type: Article

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