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SUBMITTER: Schneider WT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5830660 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schneider Will T WT Rutz Christian C Hedwig Berthold B Bailey Nathan W NW
Biology letters 20180201 2
The evolutionary loss of sexual traits is widely predicted. Because sexual signals can arise from the coupling of specialized motor activity with morphological structures, disruption to a single component could lead to overall loss of function. Opportunities to observe this process and characterize any remaining signal components are rare, but could provide insight into the mechanisms, indirect costs and evolutionary consequences of signal loss. We investigated the recent evolutionary loss of a ...[more]