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Mate choice promotes inbreeding avoidance in the two-spotted spider mite
Since inbreeding in Tetranychus urticae can reduce offspring fitness, sexual selection may favour disassortative mate choice with respect to relatedness of the mating partners. We tested whether T. urticae shows this preference for mating with unrelated partners. We chose an experimental set-up with...
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Springer Netherlands
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21400191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10493-011-9431-y |