Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks?
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Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks?
The fitness consequences of female ornamentation remain little studied and the results are often contradictory. Female ornamentation may be an artefact of a genetic correlation with male ornamentation, but this possibility can be disregarded if the ornament only occurs in females. Female-specific white wing bars in eiders (Somateria mollissima) have been suggested to indicate individual quality...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0744