No band color effects on male courtship rate or body mass in the zebra finch: Four experiments and a meta-analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Seguin, Aurelie ^a   Forstmeier, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREEDING; COLOR BAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; ECOLOGY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; FINCH; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COLOR; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84862006667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037785     Document Type: Article

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