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Are attractive male crickets better able to pay the costs of an immune challenge?

Reproduction and immunity are fitness-related traits that trade-off with each other. Parasite-mediated theories of sexual selection suggest, however, that higher-quality males should suffer smaller costs to reproduction-related traits and behaviours (e.g., sexual display) from an immune challenge be...

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Publié dans:PeerJ
Auteurs principaux: Kelly, Clint D., Telemeco, Melissa S.C., Bartholomay, Lyric C.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690353/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26713249
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1501
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