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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...
Autores principales: | Loyau, Adeline, Blanchet, Simon, Van Laere, Pauline, Clobert, Jean, Danchin, Etienne |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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