Electrifying diversity

Michael J. Ryan ()
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Michael J. Ryan: Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6741, 211-213

Abstract: Natural selection by predation is often viewed as a constraining force on the signals used by animals: the more conspicuous a signal, the more risky it is. But both correlational and experimental evidence from weakly electric fish seem to show that, in this case at least, predation has in fact been a creative force and resulted in more elaborate signals than would otherwise have been the case.

Date: 1999
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