The opportunity to be misled in studies of sexual selection

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2012-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02451.xPMID 22268720
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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