Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxiv
Female and male plumage colour is linked to parental quality, pairing and extra-pair mating in a tropical passerine
A. V. Leitao, M. L. Hall, R. A. Mulder
The paper examines plumage coloration in lovely fairy-wrens, finding it correlates with parental quality and extra-pair paternity but not reproductive success.
DOI 10.1093/beheco/araa154