| Literature DB >> 17925217 |
Fleur E Champion de Crespigny1, David J Hosken.
Abstract
Sexual signals are conspicuous and are typically assumed to be energetically costly, which keeps them honest. A recent study on fireflies has found that signal production is energetically cheap, but signalling remains expensive because of eavesdropping predators.Mesh：
Year: 2007 PMID： 17925217 DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834