Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Meta-analysis challenges a textbook example of status signalling and demonstrates publication bias
A. Sanchez-Tojar, S. Nakagawa, M. Sanchez-Fortun…·J. Schroeder
The paper challenges the status signalling hypothesis using meta-analysis, finding no support for dominance rank being linked to bib size in house sparrows and identifying publication bias.
DOI 10.7554/elife.37385