The bright incubate at night: Sexual dichromatism and adaptive incubation division in an open-nesting shorebird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1806, 2015, Pages

  Ekanayake, Kasun B ^a   Weston, Michael A ^a   Nimmo, Dale G ^a   Maguire, Grainne S ^b   Endler, John A ^c   Küpper, Clemens ^d  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BirdLife Australia   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive parental care; Charadrius; Natural selection; Ornamentation; Sexual dichromatism; Wallace s hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHROMOSOME; INCUBATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; ORNAMENTATION; PARENTAL CARE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; WADER;

CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIUS; CHARADRIUS RUFICAPILLUS;

ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VICTORIA;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PIGMENTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VICTORIA;

EID: 84929484248     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.3026     Document Type: Article

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