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Can eggs in a cavity be a female secondary sexual signal? Male nest visits and modelling of egg visual discrimination in blue tits

Eggshell colouration is thought to function as a female-specific secondary sexual trait. While tests of this idea are rapidly accumulating in cavity-nesting birds, some fundamental underlying assumptions remain rarely investigated: namely, can males see eggshell coloration and perceive colour differ...

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Main Authors: Holveck, Marie-Jeanne, Doutrelant, Claire, Guerreiro, Romain, Perret, Philippe, Gomez, Doris, Grégoire, Arnaud
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: The Royal Society 2010
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Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936209/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20164078
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.1044
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