Climate and ecology predict latitudinal trends in sexual selection inferred from avian mating systems.

Sexual selection, one of the central pillars of evolutionary theory, has powerful effects on organismal morphology, behaviour, and population dynamics. However, current knowledge about geographical variation in this evolutionary mechanism and its underlying drivers remains highly incomplete, in part...

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Published in:PLoS Biology
Main Authors: Robert A Barber, Jingyi Yang, Chenyue Yang, Oonagh Barker, Tim Janicke, Joseph A Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-11-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002856