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SUBMITTER: Hasegawa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5773298 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecology and evolution 20171212 2
The effect of sexual selection on extinction risk remains unclear. In theory, sexual selection can lead to both increase and decrease extinction probability depending on the ecology of the study system. Thus, combining different groups might obscure patterns that can be found in groups that share similar ecological features. Using phylogenetic comparative analysis, we studied sexual plumage dimorphism in relation to the perceived risk of extinction in hirundines (subfamily: Hirundininae), in whi ...[more]