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Sexual selection: do flies lie with asymmetric legs?

Michael G Ritchie1, Karim Vahed.   

Abstract

A newly described species of empidid or 'dance fly' shows a bizarre polymorphism in their forelegs, which presumably serve as a mating lure. This trait may have evolved by frequency-dependent deceptive male signalling.
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Year:  2011        PMID: 21419993     DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.02.004

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Curr Biol        ISSN: 0960-9822            Impact factor:   10.834


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Review 1.  What determines direction of asymmetry: genes, environment or chance?

Authors:  A Richard Palmer
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2016-12-19       Impact factor: 6.237

Review 2.  Mating and Sexual Selection in Empidine Dance Flies (Empididae).

Authors:  Rosalind L Murray; Darryl T Gwynne; Luc F Bussière
Journal:  Insects       Date:  2022-09-15       Impact factor: 3.139

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