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Male–female interactions drive the (un)repeatability of copula duration in an insect

Across the animal kingdom the duration of copulation varies enormously from a few seconds to several days. Functional explanations for this variation are largely embedded within sperm competition theory in which males modulate the duration of copula in order to optimize their fitness. However, copul...

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Autores principales: Eady, Paul E., Brown, Denise V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28386449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160962