Sex-Dependent Expression and Fitness Consequences of Sunlight-Derived Color Phenotypes.

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To understand whether early phenotypes are adaptive, knowledge of the environmental factors involved in their variation and the derived benefits from their expression is needed. Temperature and sunlight are considered two major selective forces influencing phenotypic coloration of birds at a global scale. However, within-population color adaptations in response to sunlight temperature variation have been scarcely...

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