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SUBMITTER: Fitzpatrick CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4114734 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fitzpatrick Courtney L CL Altmann Jeanne J Alberts Susan C SC
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 20140701 7
Signals of fertility in female animals are of increasing interest to evolutionary biologists, a development that coincides with increasing interest in male mate choice and the potential for female traits to evolve under sexual selection. We characterized variation in size of an exaggerated female fertility signal in baboons and investigated the sources of that variance. The number of sexual cycles that a female had experienced after her most recent pregnancy ("cycles since resumption") was the s ...[more]