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Male mate choice scales female ornament allometry in a cichlid fish

BACKGROUND: Studies addressing the adaptive significance of female ornamentation have gained ground recently. However, the expression of female ornaments in relation to body size, known as trait allometry, still remains unexplored. Here, we investigated the allometry of a conspicuous female ornament...

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Autores principales: Baldauf, Sebastian A, Bakker, Theo CM, Herder, Fabian, Kullmann, Harald, Thünken, Timo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20932273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-301