Evolution of risk-taking during conspicuous mating displays

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 395-406

  Engqvist, Leif ^a,b   Cordes, Nils ^a   Reinhold, Klaus ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Asset protection; Boldness; Personality; Phenotypic plasticity; Sexual selection; State dependent selection

Indexed keywords

HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; MATE ATTRACTION; MORTALITY; ORNAMENTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PREDATION; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84922536745     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12591     Document Type: Article

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