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A female melanin ornament signals offspring fluctuating asymmetry in the barn owl.

Sexual selection theory predicts that males advertise quality by displaying extravagant ornaments. By contrast, whether phenotypic variation in females has a signalling function remains an open question. Here, to our knowledge, we provide the first evidence that a female plumage trait can signal flu...

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Hauptverfasser: Roulin, Alexandre, Ducrest, Anne-Lyse, Balloux, François, Dijkstra, Cor, Riols, Christian
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2003
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691231/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12590755
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2002.2215
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