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Heritability and genetic correlation between the sexes in a songbird sexual ornament.
Heredity - 1 Jun 2011
Potti J, Canal D
Abstract excerpt
The genetic correlation between the sexes in the expression of secondary sex traits in wild vertebrate populations has attracted very few previous empirical efforts of field researchers. In southern European populations of pied flycatchers, a sexually selected male ornament is also expressed by a proportion of females. Additive genetic variances in ornament size and expression, transmission mechanisms (autosomal...
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