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Why patterns of assortative mating are key to study sexual selection and how to measure them

The study of sexual selection is being revolutionised by the realisation that most populations exhibit some degree of polyandry, i.e. females mating with multiple males. Polyandry can drastically change the operation of sexual selection on males as it reduces the reproductive success that males deri...

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Autores principales: McDonald, Grant C., Pizzari, Tommaso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26766884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-2041-7