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Carotenoids, oxidative stress and female mating preference for longer lived males

Some of the most spectacular exaggerated sexual ornaments are carotenoid dependent. It has been suggested that such ornaments have evolved because carotenoid pigments are limiting for both signal expression and in their role as antioxidants and immunostimulants. An implicit assumption of this hypoth...

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Auteurs principaux: Pike, Thomas W, Blount, Jonathan D, Bjerkeng, Bjørn, Lindström, Jan, Metcalfe, Neil B
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Royal Society 2007
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2169282/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17439854
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.0317
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