Do unattractive friends make you look better? Context-dependent male mating preferences in the guppy

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2013-04-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.3072PMID 23407839PMCID PMC3574384
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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