Dynamic sexual dichromatism in an explosively breeding Neotropical toad
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Dynamic sexual dichromatism in an explosively breeding Neotropical toad.
Sexual selection often promotes the evolution of elaborate colour signals in males, but the importance of sexually selected colour signals remains poorly studied in amphibians. We used reflectance spectrometry to document pronounced sexual dichromatism and dramatic colour change in Bufo luetkenii, a toad that breeds in large aggregations at the onset of the rainy season in Costa Rica. Our obser...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0604