Bill coloration, a flexible signal in a tropical passerine bird, is regulated by social environment and androgens

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 795-800

  Karubian, Jordan ^a   Lindsay, Willow R ^b   Schwabl, Hubert ^b   Webster, Michael S ^b,c,d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive plasticity; Bill coloration; Dynamic trait; Multiple ornaments; Sexual signal; Soft parts

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANDROGEN; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEATHER; METABOLITE; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLUMAGE; SIGNAL; SKIN; SPERM; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MALURUS MELANOCEPHALUS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 79952736473     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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