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The Cost of the Sword: Escape Performance in Male Swordtails

The handicap theory of sexual selection posits that male display traits that are favored in mate choice come at a significant cost to performance. We tested one facet of this hypothesis in the green swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri). In this species, the lower ray of male caudal fin is extended into a...

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Autores principales: Baumgartner, Alex, Coleman, Seth, Swanson, Brook
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21253013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015837