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Correlational selection on personality and social plasticity: morphology and social context determine behavioural effects on mating success.
The Journal of animal ecology - 1 Mar 2017
Montiglio Pierre-Olivier, Wey Tina W, Chang Ann T, Fogarty Sean, Sih Andrew
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Despite a central line of research aimed at quantifying relationships between mating success and sexually dimorphic traits (e.g., ornaments), individual variation in sexually selected traits often explains only a modest portion of the variation in mating success. Another line of research suggests that a significant portion of the variation in mating success observed in animal populations could be explained by...
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