Lifetime fitness and age-related female ornament signalling: Evidence for survival and fecundity selection in the pied flycatcher

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1445-1457

  Potti, J ^a   Canal, D ^a   Serrano, D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age related expression; Fecundity; Ficedula hypoleuca; Lifetime reproductive success; Multistate models; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; FLEDGING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION; ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SIGNALING; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

AGE; AGE-RELATED EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUTCH SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; FITNESS; GENETIC SELECTION; LIFETIME REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; MULTISTATE MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; SPAIN; SURVIVAL;

AGE-RELATED EXPRESSION; FECUNDITY; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; LIFETIME REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; MULTISTATE MODELS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; PASSERIFORMES; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPAIN; SURVIVAL;

FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 84880699607     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12145     Document Type: Article

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