Length of tail streamers in barn swallows

Anders Hedenström () and Anders Pape Møller
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Anders Hedenström: Department of Animal Ecology
Anders Pape Møller: Laboratoire d' Ecologie, CNRS URA 258, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6715, 115-115

Abstract: Abstract Both natural and sexual selection affect the expression of secondary sexual characters1, so any secondary sexual character will be affected by a mixture of selection pressures. Evans2 has compared the flight performance of male barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) whose tail lengths have been altered with that of controls, and concludes that the outermost tail feathers of these birds are mainly the outcome of natural selection.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/16371

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