To signal or not to signal Chemical communication by urine-borne signals mirrors sexual conflict in crayfish 英文论文文献.docVIP

Berry and Breithaupt BMC Biology 2010, 8:25 /1741-7007/8/25 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access To signal or not to signal? Chemical Research article communication by urine-borne signals mirrors sexual conflict in crayfish Fiona C Berry and Thomas Breithaupt* Abstract Background: Sexual selection theory predicts that females, being the limiting sex, invest less in courtship signals than males. However, when chemical signals are involved it is often the female that initiates mating by producing stimuli that inform about sex and/or receptivity. This apparent contradiction has been discussed in