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Are attractive male crickets better able to pay the costs of an immune challenge?
Reproduction and immunity are fitness-related traits that trade-off with each other. Parasite-mediated theories of sexual selection suggest, however, that higher-quality males should suffer smaller costs to reproduction-related traits and behaviours (e.g., sexual display) from an immune challenge be...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26713249 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1501 |