Extreme Female Promiscuity in a Non-Social Invertebrate Species

BACKGROUND: While males usually benefit from as many matings as possible, females often evolve various methods of resistance to matings. The prevalent explanation for this is that the cost of additional matings exceeds the benefits of receiving sperm from a large number of males. Here we demonstrate...

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Autores principales: Panova, Marina, Boström, Johan, Hofving, Tobias, Areskoug, Therese, Eriksson, Anders, Mehlig, Bernhard, Mäkinen, Tuuli, André, Carl, Johannesson, Kerstin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009640

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009640

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