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Genetic Patterns of Paternity and Testes Size in Mammals

BACKGROUND: Testes size is used as a proxy of male intrasexual competition, with larger testes indicative of greater competition. It has been shown that in some taxa, social mating systems reflect variance in testes size, but results are not consistent, and instead it has been suggested that genetic...

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Autor principal: Soulsbury, Carl D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2833195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20221392
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009581