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Experimental manipulation of size and shape of tail spots and sexual selection in barn swallows

Barn swallows Hirundo rustica have white spots on their tail feathers, and they have been hypothesized to be a handicap because white spots are prone to feather breakage, ectoparasites are disproportionately common in white spots, and size of white spots increases with tail length. Here I test for a...

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Pubblicato in:Curr Zool
Autore principale: Møller, Anders P.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press 2017
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804199/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29492016
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zow098
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