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Temperature, but Not Available Energy, Affects the Expression of a Sexually Selected Ultraviolet (UV) Colour Trait in Male European Green Lizards

BACKGROUND: Colour signals are widely used in intraspecific communication and often linked to individual fitness. The development of some pigment-based (e.g. carotenoids) colours is often environment-dependent and costly for the signaller, however, for structural colours (e.g. ultraviolet [UV]) this...

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Autores principales: Bajer, Katalin, Molnár, Orsolya, Török, János, Herczeg, Gábor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3313968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22479611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034359