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Conspicuous plumage colours are highly variable.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 25 Jan 2017

Delhey Kaspar, Szecsenyi Beatrice, Nakagawa Shinichi, Peters Anne

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Elaborate ornamental traits are often under directional selection for greater elaboration, which in theory should deplete underlying genetic variation. Despite this, many ornamental traits appear to remain highly variable and how this essential variation is maintained is a key question in evolutionary biology. One way to address this question is to compare differences in intraspecific variability across different...

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PMID: 28100823
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2593
PMCID: PMC5310046

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