FITNESS COSTS OF MATERNAL ORNAMENTS AND PRENATAL CORTICOSTERONE MANIFEST AS REDUCED OFFSPRING SURVIVAL AND SEXUAL ORNAMENT EXPRESSION

Fitness Costs of Maternal Ornaments and Prenatal Corticosterone Manifest as Reduced Offspring Survival and Sexual Ornament Expression

Colorful traits (i.e., ornaments) that signal quality have well-established relationships with individual condition and physiology.Furthermore, ornaments expressed in females may have indirect fitness effects in offspring via the prenatal physiology associated with, and social consequences of, these signaling traits.Here we examine the bar drain bo

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