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Genetic and potential non-genetic benefits increase offspring fitness of polyandrous females in non-resource based mating system

BACKGROUND: The adaptive significance of female polyandry is currently under considerable debate. In non-resource based mating systems, indirect, i.e. genetic benefits have been proposed to be responsible for the fitness gain from polyandry. We studied the benefits of polyandry in the Arctic charr (...

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Autores principales: Kekäläinen, Jukka, Rudolfsen, Geir, Janhunen, Matti, Figenschou, Lars, Peuhkuri, Nina, Tamper, Niina, Kortet, Raine
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20096095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-20