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Commentary on Kehl et al. “Young male mating success is associated with sperm number but not with male sex pheromone titres”: Unnatural experimental conditions inflate the importance of male courtship activity on mating success in a butterfly

Over the last years, several studies suggested that male courtship activity is more important than female preference for male secondary sexual traits in determining male mating success in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana. We use Kehl et al. (Front Zool 12, 2015)'s study and related publications,...

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Autores principales: Nieberding, Caroline Marie, Holveck, Marie-Jeanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5921982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29719561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0256-y