Heritable true fitness and bright birds: a role for parasites?
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Summary
Combination of seven surveys of blood parasites in North American passerines reveals weak, highly significant association over species between incidence of chronic blood infections and striking display.
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- article
- Published
- 1982-10-22
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- 3,754
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Keywords
Biology, Offspring, Sexual selection, Zoology, Selection (genetic algorithm)
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