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A tradeoff between immunocompetence and sexual ornamentation in domestic fowl

Females often select their mates on the basis of the size or intensity of sexual ornaments, and it is thought that such traits are reliable indicators of male quality because the costliness of these traits prevents cheating. The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis is a recently proposed mechanistic...

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Autores principales: Verhulst, S., Dieleman, S. J., Parmentier, H. K.
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The National Academy of Sciences 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC16357/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10200287
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