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Intrasexual selection drives sensitivity to pitch, formants and duration in the competitive calls of fallow bucks
BACKGROUND: Mammal vocal parameters such as fundamental frequency (or pitch; f(o)) and formant dispersion often provide information about quality traits of the producer (e.g. dominance and body size), suggesting that they are sexually selected. However, little experimental evidence exists demonstrat...
Autores principales: | Pitcher, Benjamin J, Briefer, Elodie F, McElligott, Alan G |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4538740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26279584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0429-7 |
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