Citation

Hoy RR, Deitcher DL. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2017; 114(10): 2443-2444.

Affiliation

Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, National Academy of Sciences)

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1700520114

PMID

28242705

Abstract

In any sexually reproducing animals, one expects aggressive encounters to occur between/among males because of their adaptive value; competition over resources (food, territory, mates, social status) plays a critical role in both natural and sexual selection in most species of animals (1, 2). Male–male interaction, when behaviorally enacted, is labeled as aggression, and it varies in expression from subtle gestures to outright physically combative encounters. Moreover, aggressive behavior is usually mediated by species-specific signals in one or more sensory modalities...

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