The importance of novelty: Male–female interactions among blue-black grassquits in captivity

Mate choice is a primary mechanism driving the evolution of sexually selected traits such as elabo-rate displays and ornaments. In a majority of taxa studied to date, females are seen to actively sampleand evaluate multiple males, presumably to optimize mating opportunities. During this process fema...

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Main Author: Dias, Raphael I. (author)
Other Authors: Oliveira, Rui Filipe (author), Podos, Jeffrey (author), Macedo, Regina H. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/4779
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ispa.pt:10400.12/4779