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Wing reduction influences male mating success but not female fitness in cockroaches

Although cockroaches (Blattodea s. str.) exhibit high proportion of species with reduced wings, the underlying evolutionary forces remain unclear. Wing reduction in insects is generally considered advantageous for females and a trade-off between investment into the flying apparatus and reproduction...

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Autores principales: Kotyk, Michael, Varadínová, Zuzana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02647-7