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Fluctuating selection strength and intense male competition underlie variation and exaggeration of a water strider's male weapon

Sexually selected traits can reach high degrees of phenotypic expression and variation under directional selection. A growing number of studies suggest that such selection can vary in space, time and form within and between populations. However, the impact of these fluctuations on sexual trait evolu...

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Autores principales: Toubiana, William, Khila, Abderrahman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6501938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30991924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2400