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Evidence for Inbreeding Depression and Pre-Copulatory, but Not Post Copulatory Inbreeding Avoidance in the Cabbage Beetle Colaphellus bowringi

Inbreeding is known to have adverse effects on fitness-related traits in a range of insect species. A series of theoretical and experimental studies have suggested that polyandrous insects could avoid the cost of inbreeding via pre-copulatory mate choice and/or post-copulatory mechanisms. We looked...

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Autores principales: Liu, XingPing, Tu, XiaoYun, He, HaiMin, Chen, Chao, Xue, FangSen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24718627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094389