Age, sex and beauty: Methodological dependence of age- and sex-dichromatism in the great tit Parus major

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 777-796

  Evans, Simon R ^a   Hinks, Amy E ^a   Wilkin, Teddy A ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age dependence; Age dimorphism; Carotenoid; Cone catches; Plumage reflectance; Sex dependence; Sex dimorphism; Visual modelling

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CAROTENOID; COLOR MORPH; CONSPECIFIC; DEMOGRAPHY; META-ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSERINE; PERCEPTION; PLUMAGE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EUROPE;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 78649431008     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01548.x     Document Type: Article

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