Sexually selected male plumage color is testosterone dependent in a tropical passerine bird, the red-backed fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Lindsay, Willow R ^a   Webster, Michael S ^b   Schwabl, Hubert ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CORTICOSTERONE; MELANIN; TESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATHER; MALE; MALURUS MELANOCEPHALUS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; REFLECTANCE PARAMETERS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

AVES; MALURUS MELANOCEPHALUS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEATHERS; FEMALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 80053578697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026067     Document Type: Article

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