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The effects of genotype, age, and social environment on male ornamentation, mating behavior, and attractiveness.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2005
Miller Lisa K, Brooks Robert
Abstract excerpt
The traits thought to advertise genetic quality are often highly susceptible to environmental variation and prone to change with age. These factors may either undermine or reinforce the potential for advertisement traits to signal quality depending on the magnitude of age-dependent expression, en...
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