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Uncertainty about flying conspecifics causes territorial contests of the Old World swallowtail, Papilio machaon
BACKGROUND: Male-male aerial contests of territorial butterflies are difficult to explain by major contest models based on game theory because of butterflies’ apparent inability to inflict substantial costs on their opponent. As an alternative, the “erroneous courtship hypothesis” was presented. Thi...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6591982/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31285749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-019-0324-y |