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Digest: Be honest with me: Do parasites play a role in divergence of sexual signals? *
Author(s) -
Maguire William,
Tomasula Jewel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.14084
Subject(s) - biology , divergence (linguistics) , evolutionary biology , zoology , philosophy , linguistics
Do local parasite assemblages correlate with the divergence of sexual signals across subspecies? Hund et al. found that locally relevant sexual signals were associated with the most costly local parasites, indicating sexual signals communicate information about local parasite costs and suggesting a potential role in speciation.