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Male coercive mating in externally fertilizing species: male coercion, female reluctance and explanation for female acceptance

Male coercive mating exerts a strong evolutionary pressure on mating-related traits of both sexes. However, it is extremely rare in externally fertilizing species probably because the male mating behaviour is incomplete until females release their eggs. Here we showed that males of the externally fe...

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Autores principales: Matsumoto, Yukio, Takegaki, Takeshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4834473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27087584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep24536