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Costs of injury for scent signalling in a strepsirrhine primate

Honesty is crucial in animal communication when signallers are conveying information about their condition. Condition dependence implies a cost to signal production; yet, evidence of such cost is scarce. We examined the effects of naturally occurring injury on the quality and salience of olfactory s...

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Autores principales: Harris, Rachel L., Boulet, Marylène, Grogan, Kathleen E., Drea, Christine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29959333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27322-3