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Don’t get the blues: conspicuous nuptial colouration of male moor frogs (Rana arvalis) supports visual mate recognition during scramble competition in large breeding aggregations

Conspicuous male colouration is expected to have evolved primarily through selection by female choice. In what way conspicuous colours could be advantageous to males scrambling for mates remains largely unknown. The moor frog (Rana arvalis) belongs to the so-called explosive breeders in which spawni...

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Main Authors: Sztatecsny, Marc, Preininger, Doris, Freudmann, Anita, Loretto, Matthias-Claudio, Maier, Franziska, Hödl, Walter
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496481/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23162205
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-012-1412-6
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