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Defensive tolerance to parasitism is correlated with sexual selection in swallows

Parasite-mediated sexual selection has been the topic of extensive research and enthusiastic debate for more than three decades. Here, we suggest that secondary sexual characters may not only signal parasite resistance but also defensive tolerance. We exemplify this possibility by analysing informat...

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Autores principales: Soler, Juan José, Møller, Anders Pape
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10684419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37462738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05419-5