Extra-pair paternity drives plumage colour elaboration in male passerines

• Emma Thibault,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

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• Sean M. Mahoney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8446-423X

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• James V. Briskie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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• Mateen Shaikh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4210-5751

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• Matthew W. Reudink

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mreudink@tru.ca

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8956-5849

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