Parasites, Bright Males, and the Immunocompetence Handicap

It has been argued that females should be able to choose parasite-resistant mates on the basis of the quality of male secondary sexual characters and that such signals must be costly handicaps in order to evolve. To a large extent, handicap hypotheses have relied on energetic explanations for these...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American naturalist 1992-03, Vol.139 (3), p.603-622
Hauptverfasser:	Folstad, Ivar, Karter, Andrew John
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Disabilities Infections Male animals Mating behavior Parasite hosts Parasites Parasitism Phenotypic traits Sexual selection Testosterone
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