Plumage patterns: Ecological functions, evolutionary origins, and advances in quantification

NA Mason, RCK Bowie - The Auk, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Birds exhibit remarkable variation in plumage patterns, both within individual feathers and
among plumage patches. Differences in the size, shape, and location of pigments and …

Dominance and plumage traits: meta-analysis and metaregression analysis

ESA Santos, D Scheck, S Nakagawa - Animal behaviour, 2011‏ - Elsevier
The study of avian signalling systems is an important avenue for research on animal
communication. More specifically, the use of plumage traits to signal status or fighting ability …

[کتاب][B] The evolutionary biology of human female sexuality

R Thornhill, SW Gangestad - 2008‏ - books.google.com
Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional
conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional …

A socially enforced signal of quality in a paper wasp

EA Tibbetts, J Dale - Nature, 2004‏ - nature.com
Organisms use signals of quality to communicate information about aspects of their relative
phenotypic and genetic constitution,,,. Badges of status,, are a subset of signals of quality …

[PDF][PDF] Bird colors as intrasexual signals of aggression and dominance

JC Senar - Bird coloration, 2006‏ - academia.edu
Darwin (1871) proposed two modes of sexual selection: direct competition between
individuals of the same sex (intrasexual selection) and mate choice (intersexual selection) …

Sexual selection resulting from extrapair paternity in collared flycatchers

BENC SHELDON, H ELLEGREN - Animal Behaviour, 1999‏ - Elsevier
Extrapair paternity has been suggested to represent a potentially important source of sexual
selection on male secondary sexual characters, particularly in birds with predominantly …

Is song–type matching a conventional signal of aggressive intentions?

SL Vehrencamp - Proceedings of the Royal Society of …, 2001‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Song–type matching is a singing strategy found in some oscine songbirds with repertoires of
song types and at least partial sharing of song types between males. Males reply to the song …

Adaptive plasticity in mate preference linked to differences in reproductive effort

A Qvarnström, T Pärt, BC Sheldon - Nature, 2000‏ - nature.com
There is abundant evidence for the existence of marked mate preferences in natural
populations, but the occurrence of within-population variation in mate preferences has …

Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild

A Qvarnström, JE Brommer, L Gustafsson - Nature, 2006‏ - nature.com
One of the most debated questions in evolutionary biology is whether female choice of
males with exaggerated sexual displays can evolve as a correlated response to selection …

Carotenoid status signaling in captive and wild red-collared widowbirds: independent effects of badge size and color

SR Pryke, S Andersson, MJ Lawes… - Behavioral …, 2002‏ - academic.oup.com
Carotenoid-based plumage ornaments are typically considered to be sexually selected
traits, functioning as honest condition-dependent signals of phenotypic quality, but few …