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Do pre- and post-copulatory sexually selected traits covary in large herbivores?

BACKGROUND: In most species, males compete to gain both matings (via pre-copulatory competition) and fertilizations (via post-copulatory competition) to maximize their reproductive success. However, the quantity of resources devoted to sexual traits is finite, and so males are predicted to balance t...

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Autores principales: Ferrandiz-Rovira, Mariona, Lemaître, Jean-François, Lardy, Sophie, López, Bernat C, Cohas, Aurélie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24716470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-79