Low-quality birds do not display high-quality signals: The cysteine-pheomelanin mechanism of honesty

The mechanisms that make that the costs of producing high-quality signals are unaffordable to low-quality signalers are a current issue in animal communication. The size of the melanin-based bib of male house sparrows Passer domesticus honestly signals quality. We induced the development of new bibs...

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Autores principales: Galván, Ismael, Wakamatsu, Kazumasa, Camarero, Pablo R, Mateo, Rafael, Alonso-Alvarez, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4312981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25330349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12549

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4312981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25330349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12549

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