Evidence for a receiver bias underlying female preference for a male mating pheromone in sea lamprey
Evidence for a receiver bias underlying female preference for a male mating pheromone in sea lamprey
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Buchinger, T. J. , Wang, H. , Li, W. and Johnson, N. S.
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England: The Royal Society
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English
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Receiver bias models suggest that a male sexual signal became exaggerated to match a pre-existing sensory, perceptual or cognitive disposition of the female. Accordingly, these models predict that females of related taxa possessing the ancestral state of signalling evolved preference for the male trait in a non-sexual context. We postulated that fe...
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Evidence for a receiver bias underlying female preference for a male mating pheromone in sea lamprey
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TN_cdi_pubmed_primary_24068361
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmed_primary_24068361
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0962-8452
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10.1098/rspb.2013.1966
