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Experimental manipulation shows that the white wing patch in collared flycatchers is a male sexual ornament

Descriptive analysis suggests that a conspicuous white wing patch in dichromatic (black and white) pied and collared flycatchers is under sexual selection. Here, we use an experimental approach to test whether this trait is indeed the target of selection. We caught 100 collared flycatcher Ficedula a...

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Main Authors: de Heij, Maaike E, Gustafsson, Lars, Brommer, Jon E
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287330/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22393521
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.48
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