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When not to copy: female fruit flies use sophisticated public information to avoid mated males

Semen limitation (lack of semen to fertilize all of a female's eggs) imposes high fitness costs to female partners. Females should therefore avoid mating with semen-limited males. This can be achieved by using public information extracted from watching individual males' previous copulating...

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Autores principales: Loyau, Adeline, Blanchet, Simon, Van Laere, Pauline, Clobert, Jean, Danchin, Etienne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23105967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00768