Honest sexual signalling mediated by parasite and testosterone effects on oxidative balance

Extravagant ornaments evolved to advertise their bearers' quality, the honesty of the signal being ensured by the cost paid to produce or maintain it. The oxidation handicap hypothesis (OHH) proposes that a main cost of testosterone-dependent ornamentation is oxidative stress, a condition where...

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Autores principales: Mougeot, Francois, Martínez-Padilla, Jesu´s, Webster, Lucy M.I., Blount, Jonathan D., Pérez-Rodríguez, Lorenzo, Piertney, Stuart B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19129122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1570

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19129122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1570

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