Comment on 'Parasite defensive limb movements enhance acoustic signal attraction in male little torrent frogs'.
editorial · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 37812202.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.89134 and PMC identifier 10561974.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Zhao et al. recently reported results which, they claim, suggest that sexual selection produces the multimodal displays seen in little torrent frogs (<i>Amolops torrentis</i>) by co-opting limb movements that originally evolved to support parasite defense (Zhao et al., 2022). Here, we explain why we believe this conclusion to be premature.
Medical subject headings
- Parasites