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Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow

Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow

Møller, Anders Pape
Gregersen, Jens

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Series: Oxford Ecology and Evolution

BirdwatchingEvolutionZoology

ISBN10: 0198540280
ISBN13: 9780198540281
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 30 1994
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
This informative book details the important effects sexual selection has on barn swallow mating behavior, mating competition, parental care, host-parasite interactions, and migration strategies. The first two chapters present a concise, insightful review of the two main components of sexual selection theory--male-male competition and female choice. Citing evidence from the author's long-term field work on the monogamous barn swallow, subsequent chapters investigate the advantages held by males with colorful plumage and by females who are choosy when selecting a mating partner. In his exploration of the roles of behavior, ecology, morphology, genetics, and evolution, M ller provides an invaluable synthesis of barn swallow mating behavior research. Students and researchers of ecology, animal behavior, ornithology, and evolutionary biology will welcome this book.

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