Mate Choice: Charting Desire’s Tangled Bank
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Mate Choice: Charting Desire’s Tangled Bank
Choosing a mate requires a way to turn sexual arousal into sexual action. A recent paper identifies a hormone receptor that acts as a molecular gatekeeper in reproductive decisions. Focusing on mate-choice mechanisms may clarify longstanding evolutionary puzzles in sexual selection and speciation.
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.016