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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| Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2015-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/1501.pdf |