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Vitamin E Supplementation Increases the Attractiveness of Males' Scent for Female European Green Lizards
BACKGROUND: In spite that chemoreception is important in sexual selection for many animals, such as reptiles, the mechanisms that confer reliability to chemical signals are relatively unknown. European green lizards (Lacerta viridis) have substantial amounts of α-tocopherol ( = vitamin E) in their f...
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Public Library of Science
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21552540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019410 |