Why aren’t signals of female quality more common?

dc.contributor.author	Hosken, David J
dc.contributor.author	Alonzo, SH
dc.contributor.author	Wedell, Nina
dc.date.accessioned	2016-02-04T15:11:18Z
dc.date.issued	2016-03-16
dc.description.abstract	Highlights In most species females are less ornamented than males. We suggest a novel reason for this pattern. If females signal their sexual quality, they may suffer increased sexual harassment. Ornaments could therefore be especially costly for females.
dc.description.sponsorship	We thank the Editor and the anonymous referees for helpful comments and the Leverhulme Trust, NERC and the Royal Society for funding.
dc.identifier.citation	Vol. 114, April 2016, pp. 199–201
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19606
dc.language.iso	en	en_GB
dc.publisher	Elsevier Masson	en_GB
dc.relation.url	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347216000634
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dc.rights	Copyright © 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	en_GB
dc.rights	This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier Masson via the DOI in this record.
dc.subject	sexual selection	en_GB
dc.subject	ornamentation	en_GB
dc.subject	mate choice	en_GB
dc.subject	sexual harassment	en_GB
dc.subject	sexual conflict	en_GB
dc.title	Why aren’t signals of female quality more common?	en_GB
dc.type	Article	en_GB
dc.identifier.issn	0003-3472
dc.description	Article	en_GB
dc.identifier.journal	Animal Behaviour	en_GB