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Elaborate visual and acoustic signals evolve independently in a large, phenotypically diverse radiation of songbirds.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Aug 2014

Mason Nicholas A, Shultz Allison J, Burns Kevin J

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The concept of a macroevolutionary trade-off among sexual signals has a storied history in evolutionary biology. Theory predicts that if multiple sexual signals are costly for males to produce or maintain and females prefer a single, sexually selected trait, then an inverse correlation between sexual signal elaborations is expected among species. However, empirical evidence for what has been termed the 'transfer...

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PMID: 24943371
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0967
PMCID: PMC4083800

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