Female preferences for long tails constrained by species recognition in short-tailed red bishops
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2008
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Pryke, Sarah
Andersson, Staffan
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Oxford University Press
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Sexual selection and species recognition both play important roles in mate choice. Typically, females use the relative expression of male sexual traits to select high-quality or attractive mates (sexual selection) of the same species (species recognition)
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Keywords: conspecific; gene expression; mate choice; mate recognition; passerine; sexual selection; Euplectes; Euplectes orix Euplectes; Receiver bias; Sexual selection; Species recognition; Tail length
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Behavioral Ecology
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