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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

The perceptual effects of signal components: black sword margins are crucial for signal size discrimination in green swordtails

Eleanor M Caves, Laura A Kelley

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cell type diversification and phenotype convergence underlying white fin-ornamentation of cyprinid fishes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Mechanistic constraint and evolutionary history matter for the origin of innovation in animal communication.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Eleanor M CavesDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3497-5925
Laura A KelleyCentre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0700-1471

Funding

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie ActionsRoyal Society
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The signals that mediate mate choice can be complex, comprising multiple components, and understanding how complex signals evolve under sexual selection has been the focus of much study. However, open questions still remain about the role of the female's sensory and perceptual processes in shaping the evolution of complex signals. Male green swordtails

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Animal CommunicationCyprinodontiformesMating Preference, AnimalAnimalsBody SizeFemaleMalePigmentationmate choicemelanic colorationperceptual processingsignal evolutionswordtailvisual ecology

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PMID39876733
PMCPMC11775600

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