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Love bites: male frogs (Plectrohyla, Hylidae) use teeth scratching to deliver sodefrin precursor-like factors to females during amplexus

BACKGROUND: Efficient transfer of chemical signals is important for successful mating in many animal species. Multiple evolutionary lineages of animals evolved direct sex pheromone transmission during traumatic mating—the wounding of the partner with specialized devices—which helps to avoid signal l...

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Autores principales: Schulte, Lisa M., Martel, An, Cruz-Elizalde, Raciel, Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio, Bossuyt, Franky
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34823558
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-021-00445-6