Meta-analysis challenges a textbook example of status signalling and demonstrates publication bias
A. Sanchez-Tojar, S. Nakagawa, M. Sanchez-Fortun, D. A. Martin, S. Ramani, A. Girndt, V. Bokony, B. Kempenaers, A. Liker, D. Westneat, T. Burke, 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.
bioRxiv · Sep 25, 2018Evolutionary Biology