Uninformative Exaggeration of Male Sexual Ornaments in Barn Swallows
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Uninformative Exaggeration of Male Sexual Ornaments in Barn Swallows
Models of sexual selection suggest that mate-choice preferences are favored because differences between males in their degree of ornamental exaggeration convey useful information about the direct or indirect benefits they have to offer [1-5]. Such arguments assume that variation in male ornament size can be attributed to variation in the degree of sexually selected exaggeration. We provide the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.042