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Sampling and assessment accuracy in mate choice: a random-walk model of infor...
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The Origin of Utility: Sexual Selection and Conspicuous Consumption
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Characteristics and sexual functions of sky-dancing displays in a semi-coloni...
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Yolk androgens in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica): a test of some adaptive...
Maternal effects such as androgen in avian eggs can mediate evolutionary responses to selection, allowing manipulation of offspring phenotype and promoting... -
Passerine extrapair mating dynamics: a bayesian modeling approach comparing f...
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Signal honesty and condition-dependance in a multimodalsexual signaling system
In a sexual selection context, signals displayed by males are supposed to reflect honestly their condition. Given that condition is a mutlifactorial concet, it has... -
Multiple sexual advertisements honestly reflect health status in peacocks (Pa...
The evolution of multiple sexual traits remains controversial and poorly understood in evolutionary biology. In many bird species, males exhibit complex courtships... -
Covariation between brain size and immunity in birds: implications for brain ...
Parasitism can negatively affect learning and cognition, setting the scene for coevolution between brain and immunity. Greater susceptibility to parasitism by males... -
The evolutionary significance of long copulation duration in bumble bees
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Personality, foraging and pairing strategies in zebra finches (taeniopygia gu...
In evolutionary biology, phenotypic variation has for a long time been considered as the raw material on which natural selection acts. However, research on the... -
Monogamy and partners' changes at a monogamous parasite, Schistosoma mansoni
The monogamy is a system of matching which binds(connects) a single female to a single male. This monogamy can be defined as social and genetic (beyond the observation...
