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High Costs of Female Choice in a Lekking Lizard

Although the cost of mate choice is an essential component of the evolution and maintenance of sexual selection, the energetic cost of female choice has not previously been assessed directly. Here we report that females can incur high energetic costs as a result of discriminating among potential mat...

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Autores principales: Vitousek, Maren N., Mitchell, Mark A., Woakes, Anthony J., Niemack, Michael D., Wikelski, Martin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1891434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17593966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000567