Correlates of male fitness in captive zebra finches - A comparison of methods to disentangle genetic and environmental effects

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bolund, Elisabeth ^a,b   Schielzeth, Holger ^a,c   Forstmeier, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COLOR MORPH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; META-ANALYSIS; ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FINCH; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FINCHES; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 80455158294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-327     Document Type: Article

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