Piault, Romain; Gasparini, Julien; Bize, Pierre; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 19 (2008) 4, pp. 703-709
Body condition can affect coloration of traits used in sexual selection and parent--offspring communication by inducing rapid internal changes in pigment concentration or aggregation, thickness of collagen arrays, or blood flux. The recent "makeup hypothesis" proposes an alternative...