Blue-green eggshell coloration is not a sexually selected signal of female quality in an open-nesting polygynous passerine

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 493-499

  Honza, Marcel ^a   Požgayová, Milica ^a   Procházka, Petr ^a   Cherry, Michael I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus arundinaceus; Blue green chroma; Egg colour; Female condition; Great reed warbler; Polygyny

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BROOD PARASITISM; COLOR; EGGSHELL; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PASSERINE; POLYGYNY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PASSERIFORMES; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 79959877113     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0790-3     Document Type: Article

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