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AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA
卷 29, 期 4, 页码 572-578出版社
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1163/156853808786230479
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chemosensory recognition; femoral glands; Iberolacerta cyreni; Lacertids; sexual selection
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The effects of intrasexual selection (i.e., male-male competition) and intersexual selection (i.e., mate choice) may result on the evolution of different secondary sexual traits. We tested whether chemosensory responses of male and female Iberolacerta cyreni lizards to femoral secretion of conspecific males (a chemical sexual trait used in social behavior) were eliciting by different chemical traits. Tongue-flick essays showed that males and females had similar chemosensory responses to the femoral secretions of males, but males and females differed in the magnitude of their chemosensory responses to the different chemicals found in secretions. Moreover, responses to chemicals related to body size depended on the own body size of the responding male, but did not in females. These results might support that femoral secretions of males convey different messages for male or female I. cyreni lizards.
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