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Sexually selected lip colour indicates male group-holding status in the mating season in a multi-level primate society

Sexual selection typically produces ornaments in response to mate choice, and armaments in response to male–male competition. Unusually among mammals, many primates exhibit colour signals that may be related to one or both processes. Here, we document for the first time correlates of facial colorati...

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Autores principales: Grueter, Cyril C., Zhu, Pingfen, Allen, William L., Higham, James P., Ren, Baoping, Li, Ming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4807456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27019735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150490