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Mating with Stressed Males Increases the Fitness of Ant Queens
BACKGROUND: According to sexual conflict theory, males can increase their own fitness by transferring substances during copulation that increase the short-term fecundity of their mating partners at the cost of the future life expectancy and re-mating capability of the latter. In contrast, sexual coo...
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Public Library of Science
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2434203/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18596983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002592 |