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The role of juvenile hormone in immune function and pheromone production trade-offs: a test of the immunocompetence handicap principle.

The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis postulates that secondary sexual traits are honest signals of mate quality because the hormones (e.g. testosterone) needed to develop secondary sexual traits have immunosuppressive effects. The best support for predictions arising from the immunocompetence ha...

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Hauptverfasser: Rantala, Markus J, Vainikka, Anssi, Kortet, Raine
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2003
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691508/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14613612
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2472
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