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Male-Male Clasping May Be Part of an Alternative Reproductive Tactic in Xenopus laevis

Male Xenopus laevis frogs have been observed to clasp other males in a sustained, amplectant position, the purpose of which is unknown. We examined three possible hypotheses for this counter-intuitive behavior: 1) clasping males fail to discriminate the sex of the frogs they clasp; 2) male-male clas...

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Auteurs principaux: Rhodes, Heather J., Stevenson, Rachel J., Ego, Courtney L.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2014
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029796/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24849114
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097761
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