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Sexual Cannibalism: High Incidence in a Natural Population with Benefits to Females

BACKGROUND: Sexual cannibalism may be a form of extreme sexual conflict in which females benefit more from feeding on males than mating with them, and males avoid aggressive, cannibalistic females in order to increase net fitness. A thorough understanding of the adaptive significance of sexual canni...

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Autores principales: Rabaneda-Bueno, Rubén, Rodríguez-Gironés, Miguel Á., Aguado-de-la-Paz, Sara, Fernández-Montraveta, Carmen, De Mas, Eva, Wise, David H., Moya-Laraño, Jordi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2565799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18941517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003484