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Sexual conflict in twins: male co-twins reduce fitness of female Soay sheep

Males and females often have different requirements during early development, leading to sex-specific interactions between developing offspring. In polytocous mammals, competition for limited resources in utero may be asymmetrical between the sexes, and androgens produced by male foetuses could have...

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Autores principales: Korsten, Peter, Clutton-Brock, Tim, Pilkington, Jill G., Pemberton, Josephine M., Kruuk, Loeske E. B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19493877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0366

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