Digest Ecological crossover effects on sexual selection

Environmental conditions during birds’ nonbreeding season can affect the manifestation of secondary sexual traits and therefore sexual selection. In pied flycatchers, the size of the wing patch is a secondary sexual trait that signals mate value and is influenced by the previous winter’s conditions....

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Published inEvolution Vol. 72; no. 10; pp. 2244 - 2245
Main Author Ershova, Natalia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Wiley 01.10.2018
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Animals
Birds
Crossovers
DIGESTS
Ecological effects
Ecology
Environmental conditions
Environmental effects
Female
Passeriformes
Phenotype
Reproduction
Secondary sexual characters
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Sexual selection
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Summary:Environmental conditions during birds’ nonbreeding season can affect the manifestation of secondary sexual traits and therefore sexual selection. In pied flycatchers, the size of the wing patch is a secondary sexual trait that signals mate value and is influenced by the previous winter’s conditions. Female preference changes accordingly with the conditions of the previous nonbreeding season.
Bibliography:http://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13515
Ecological crossovers of sexual signalling in a migratory bird. Evolution.
This article corresponds to Teerikorpi, P. E., P. M. Sirkiä, and T. Laaksonen.
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ISSN:0014-3820
1558-5646
DOI:10.1111/evo.13588