Sex-dependent selection on an autosomal melanic female ornament promotes the evolution of sex ratio bias
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Sex-dependent selection on an autosomal melanic female ornament promotes the evolution of sex ratio bias.
Sex-dependent selection often leads to spectacularly different phenotypes in males and females. In species in which sexual dimorphism is not complete, it is unclear which benefits females and males derive from displaying a trait that is typical of the other sex. In barn owls (Tyto alba), females exhibit on average larger black eumelanic spots than males but members of the two sexes display this...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology Letters
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1461-023X,1461-0248
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01459.x