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Female Fitness Optimum at Intermediate Mating Rates under Traumatic Mating

Traumatic mating behaviors often bear signatures of sexual conflict and are then typically considered a male strategy to circumvent female choice mechanisms. In an extravagant mating ritual, the hermaphroditic sea slug Siphopteron quadrispinosum pierces the integument of their mating partners with a...

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Autores principales: Lange, Rolanda, Gerlach, Tobias, Beninde, Joscha, Werminghausen, Johanna, Reichel, Verena, Anthes, Nils
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043234