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Silent night: adaptive disappearance of a sexual signal in a parasitized population of field crickets

Sexual signals are often critical for mate attraction and reproduction, although their conspicuousness exposes them to parasites and predators. We document the near-disappearance of song, the sexual signal of crickets, and its replacement with a novel silent morph, in a population subject to strong...

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Main Authors: Zuk, Marlene, Rotenberry, John T, Tinghitella, Robin M
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2006
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1834006/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17148278
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0539
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