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The cost of sexual signaling in yeast.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2010
Smith Carl, Greig Duncan
Abstract excerpt
The handicap principle holds that costly sexual signals can reliably indicate mate quality. Only individuals of high quality can afford a strong signal--the cost of signaling is relatively lower for high-quality signalers than for low-quality signalers. This critical property is difficult to test experimentally because the benefit of signaling on mating success, and cost of signaling on other components of...
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