ArticleEcology and evolution2018
Mate choice decision rules: Trait synergisms and preference shifts.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Mate choice decision rules: Trait synergisms and preference shifts.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
An important and understudied question in sexual selection is how females evaluate information from multiple secondary sexual traits (SSTs), particularly when expression of traits is phenotypically uncorrelated. We performed mate choice experiments on zebra finches (
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