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    Logan S. James, Jennifer B. Dai, Jon T. Sakata
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    Robotic crabs reveal that female fiddler crabs are sensitive to changes in male display rate

    Sophie L. Mowles, Michael D. Jennions, Patricia R. Y. Backwell
    Biol. Lett. 2018 14 20170695; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0695. Published 17 January 2018
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    The shield effect: nuptial gifts protect males against pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism

    Søren Toft, Maria J. Albo
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    Or47b-neurons promote male-mating success in Drosophila

    Shahnaz Rahman Lone, Archana Venkataraman, Manishi Srivastava, Sheetal Potdar, Vijay Kumar Sharma
    Biol. Lett. 2015 11 20150292; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0292. Published 27 May 2015
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    Involvement of different mesotocin (oxytocin homologue) populations in sexual and aggressive behaviours of the brown anole

    David Kabelik, D. Sumner Magruder
    Biol. Lett. 2014 10 20140566; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0566. Published 27 August 2014
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    Does male reproductive effort increase with age? Courtship in fiddler crabs

    Catherine L. Hayes, Isobel Booksmythe, Michael D. Jennions, Patricia R. Y. Backwell
    Biol. Lett. 2013 9 20121078; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1078. Published 16 January 2013
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    Economy of mate attraction in the Cassin's finch

    Keith W Sockman, Kendra B Sewall, Gregory F Ball, Thomas P Hahn
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