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Bearded ladies: females suffer fitness consequences when bearing male traits.

Biology letters - 1 Jan 2013

Swierk Lindsey, Langkilde Tracy

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A central assumption in evolutionary biology is that females of sexually dimorphic species suffer costs when bearing male secondary sexual traits, such as ornamentation. Nevertheless, it is common in nature to observe females bearing rudimentary versions of male ornaments (e.g. 'bearded ladies'), as ornaments can be under similar genetic control in both sexes. Here, we provide evidence that masculinized females...

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PMID: 24196514
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0644
PMCID: PMC3871349

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