Article
Sex-linked genomic variation and its relationship to avian plumage dichromatism and sexual selection.
BMC evolutionary biology - 16 Sept 2015
Huang Huateng, Rabosky Daniel L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sexual dichromatism is the tendency for sexes to differ in color pattern and represents a striking form of within-species morphological variation. Conspicuous intersexual differences in avian plumage are generally thought to result from Darwinian sexual selection, to the extent that dichromatism is often treated as a surrogate for the intensity of sexual selection in phylogenetic comparative studies....
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