A possible non-sexual origin of mate preference: are male guppies mimicking fruit?

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2002-03-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2001.1891PMID 11886639PMCID PMC1690917
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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