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Polyandry enhances offspring viability with survival costs to mothers only when mating exclusively with virgin males in Drosophila melanogaster

A prominent hypothesis for polyandry says that male–male competitive drivers induce males to coerce already‐mated females to copulate, suggesting that females are more likely to be harassed in the presence of multiple males. This early sociobiological idea of male competitive drive seemed to explain...

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Autores principales: Castrezana, Sergio, Faircloth, Brant C., Bridges, William C., Gowaty, Patricia Adair
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28944035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3152