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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Tojar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234027 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20181113
The status signalling hypothesis aims to explain within-species variation in ornamentation by suggesting that some ornaments signal dominance status. Here, we use multilevel meta-analytic models to challenge the textbook example of this hypothesis, the black bib of male house sparrows (<i>Passer domesticus</i>). We conducted a systematic review, and obtained primary data from published and unpublished studies to test whether dominance rank is positively associated with bib size across studies. C ...[more]