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Do female Nicrophorus vespilloides reduce direct costs by choosing males that mate less frequently?
Sexual conflict occurs when selection to maximize fitness in one sex does so at the expense of the other sex. In the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, repeated mating provides assurance of paternity at a direct cost to female reproductive productivity. To reduce this cost, females could choos...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26979560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.1064 |