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Digest: Be honest with me: Do parasites play a role in divergence of sexual signals?

William MaguireJewel Tomasula
Published in: Evolution; international journal of organic evolution (2020)
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.
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