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Mechanisms maintaining honesty of sexual signals are far from resolved, limiting our understanding of sexual selection and potential important parts of physiology. Carotenoid pigmented visual signals are among the most extensively studied sexual displays, but evidence regarding hypotheses on how car...

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Autores principales: Mirre J P Simons, Alan A Cohen, Simon Verhulst
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/bfa3b7ea46154966b2cd2660eb51552f
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