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Male-Male Clasping May Be Part of an Alternative Reproductive Tactic in Xenopus laevis
Male Xenopus laevis frogs have been observed to clasp other males in a sustained, amplectant position, the purpose of which is unknown. We examined three possible hypotheses for this counter-intuitive behavior: 1) clasping males fail to discriminate the sex of the frogs they clasp; 2) male-male clas...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029796/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24849114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097761 |