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Macroevolutionary patterning of woodpecker drums reveals how sexual selection elaborates signals under constraint

Sexual selection drives elaboration in animal displays used for competition and courtship, but this process is opposed by morphological constraints on signal design. How do interactions between selection and constraint shape display evolution? One possibility is that sexual selection continues exagg...

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Autores principales: Miles, Meredith C., Schuppe, Eric R., Ligon, R. Miller, Fuxjager, Matthew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29467264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2628