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Experimental manipulation of sexual traits in barn swallow populations-No evidence for divergent sexual selection.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2022
Lifjeld Jan T
Abstract excerpt
Safran et al. (2016a) manipulated two sexual traits (ventral plumage coloration and tail streamer length) in male barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) and reported divergent effects on paternity change between two study populations, in Colorado and Israel. They concluded that geographical variation in the two phenotypic traits is maintained by divergent sexual selection. However, the response variable they used, the...
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