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Negative effects of prolonged dietary restriction on male mating effort: nuptial gifts as honest indicators of long-term male condition
The handicap principle proposes that sexual signals must be costly to be honest. Honesty may be maintained by the costs paid by honest signallers or by the potential costs of cheating. In the latter, handicaps should emerge as a consequence of specific biological constraints, such as life-history tr...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4764815/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26908253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21846 |