Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks?
The fitness consequences of female ornamentation remain little studied and the results are often contradictory. Female ornamentation may be an artefact of a genetic correlation with male ornamentation, but this possibility can be disregarded if the ornament only occurs in females. Female-specific wh...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0744 2024-09-15T18:36:00+00:00 Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks? Lehikoinen, Aleksi Jaatinen, Kim Öst, Markus 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0744 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0744 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0744 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Biology Letters volume 6, issue 2, page 225-228 ISSN 1744-9561 1744-957X journal-article 2009 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0744 2024-08-12T04:27:47Z The fitness consequences of female ornamentation remain little studied and the results are often contradictory. Female ornamentation may be an artefact of a genetic correlation with male ornamentation, but this possibility can be disregarded if the ornament only occurs in females. Female-specific white wing bars in eiders ( Somateria mollissima ) have been suggested to indicate individual quality, and we studied size variation in this trait in relation to key fitness components and quality attributes. We found that clutch size, body condition, female age, hatching date and success were unrelated to female ornament size; ornament size was explained by its size in the previous year. In contrast, good body condition was associated with hatching success. These results suggest that the breadth of the white wing bars does not indicate individual quality in our study population. Article in Journal/Newspaper Somateria mollissima The Royal Society Biology Letters 6 2 225 228 |
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The fitness consequences of female ornamentation remain little studied and the results are often contradictory. Female ornamentation may be an artefact of a genetic correlation with male ornamentation, but this possibility can be disregarded if the ornament only occurs in females. Female-specific white wing bars in eiders ( Somateria mollissima ) have been suggested to indicate individual quality, and we studied size variation in this trait in relation to key fitness components and quality attributes. We found that clutch size, body condition, female age, hatching date and success were unrelated to female ornament size; ornament size was explained by its size in the previous year. In contrast, good body condition was associated with hatching success. These results suggest that the breadth of the white wing bars does not indicate individual quality in our study population. |
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Lehikoinen, Aleksi Jaatinen, Kim Öst, Markus Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks? |
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Lehikoinen, Aleksi Jaatinen, Kim Öst, Markus |
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Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks? |
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Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks? |
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Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks? |
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Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks? |
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Do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks? |
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do female ornaments indicate quality in eider ducks? |
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