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Coevolution of non-fertile sperm and female receptivity in a butterfly

Sexual conflict can promote rapid evolution of male and female reproductive traits. Males of many polyandrous butterflies transfer nutrients at mating that enhances female fecundity, but generates sexual conflict over female remating due to sperm competition. Butterflies produce both normal fertiliz...

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Autores principales: Wedell, Nina, Wiklund, Christer, Bergström, Jonas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19640869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0452