Eulemur, me lemur: The evolution of scent-signal complexity in a primate clade

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1597, 2012, Pages 1909-1922

  delbarco Trillo, Javier ^a,b   Sacha, Caitlin R ^a   Dubay, George R ^a   Drea, Christine M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Female masculinization; Olfactory communication; Reproductive advertisement; Sex differences; Species signatures; Strepsirrhine primate

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIGNAL;

EULEMUR; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 84861555767     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0225     Document Type: Article

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