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Immune-Mediated Change in the Expression of a Sexual Trait Predicts Offspring Survival in the Wild
BACKGROUND: The “good genes” theory of sexual selection postulates that females choose mates that will improve their offspring's fitness through the inheritance of paternal genes. In spite of the attention that this hypothesis has given rise to, the empirical evidence remains sparse, mostly bec...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184954/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21984912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025305 |