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Eutrophication and predation risk interact to affect sexual trait expression and mating success.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2012
Cothran Rickey D, Stiff Andy R, Jeyasingh Punidan D, Relyea Rick A
Abstract excerpt
Sexual traits are especially sensitive to low food resources. Other environmental parameters (e.g., predation) should also affect sexual trait expression by favoring investment in viability traits rather than sexual traits. We know surprisingly little about how predators alter investment in sexual traits, or how predator and resource environments interact to affect sexual trait investment. We explored how...
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