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Colorful ornaments are hypothesized to have evolved in response to sexual selection for honest signals of individual quality that provide information about potential mates. Red carotenoid coloration is common in diverse groups, and in some vertebrate taxa, red coloration is a sexually selected trait whereby mates with the reddest ornaments are preferred. Despite being widespread among invertebrates,...
Within the past several decades, resource trade‐offs have emerged as the commonly accepted explanation for how carotenoid‐based coloration links to individual performance. However, the literature on carotenoid signalling is inconsistent in how carotenoid resource trade‐offs are defined, assessed and interpreted.
We provide a clear statement of the resource trade‐off hypothesis for explaining the...
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