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The Indirect Benefits of Mating with Attractive Males Outweigh the Direct Costs

The fitness consequences of mate choice are a source of ongoing debate in evolutionary biology. Recent theory predicts that indirect benefits of female choice due to offspring inheriting superior genes are likely to be negated when there are direct costs associated with choice, including any costs o...

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Autores principales: Head, Megan L, Hunt, John, Jennions, Michael D, Brooks, Robert
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC544928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15678167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030033