Courtship and male ornaments as honest indicators of immune function
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- 作者：Rachel Gilbert ; gilberrl@mail.uc.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; George W. Uetz
- 关键词：courtship ; immunocompetence ; infection ; Schizocosa ocreata ; sexual signalling ; wolf spider
- 刊名：Animal Behaviour
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：117
- 期：Complete
- 页码：97-103
- 全文大小：551 K
文摘
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We examined the relation between immunity and sexual signalling in wolf spiders.
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Males with more asymmetrical foreleg tufts were more susceptible to infection.
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Females readily mated with infected males but also became infected through copulation.
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Courtship lowered immune function of males, but less so for males with larger tufts.