A Mechanism of Extreme Growth and Reliable Signaling in Sexually Selected Ornaments and Weapons - Emlen, Douglas J.; Warren, Ian A.; Johns, Annika; Dworkin, Ian; Lavine, Laura Corley (Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2012)
Keywords: Animal wings; Animals; antlers; Beetles; Biological and medical sciences; Biological evolution; birds; Body size; breeding; Breeding status; Cell growth; Coleoptera; Coleoptera - anatomy & histology; Coleoptera - genetics; Coleoptera - growth & development; Deer; Evolution; Fitness; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gene Knockdown Techniques; Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution; Genitalia; Growth traits; Horns; Horns - anatomy & histology; Horns - growth & development; insulin; Insulin - physiology; Insulin-like growth factors; Male; Male animals; Mating Preference, Animal; mechanistic models; Molecular Sequence Data; Online; Pathways; Phenotypic traits; Receptor, Insulin - genetics; Receptor, Insulin - physiology; Sexual selection; Signal Transduction; Somatomedins - physiology; Weapons; Insulin like growth factor; Vertebrata; Secondary sexual character; Sexual selection; Biological evolution; Morphology; Male; Invertebrata; Mechanism of action