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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Female Ornamentation"”.
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Female Ornamentation in the American Robin
… The expression of ornamental traits in females has received little study until recent decades. Female colouration has been considered a non-adaptive, correlated response to selection on males. However, models predict that male mate choice, female competition, and the evolution of honest …
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Fishing For The Evolutionary Bases Of Female Ornamentation
… to those observed in males are expressed in females—but the causes for their evolution have often been elusive. In my dissertation I examine the behavioral, hormonal, and genetic correlates of female throat coloration—a male typical trait—in the threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus …
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Conspicuous female ornamentation and male mate preference of Threespine Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
… social interactions) in many animal species. Female ornamentation is now acknowledged also to be common but is generally less well understood. One example is the recently documented red female throat coloration in some threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) populations. Although …