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Neutral fitness outcomes contradict inferences of sexual ‘coercion’ derived from male’s damaging mating tactic in a widow spider

Sexual conflict over mating frequency has driven the evolution of morphological and behavioural traits across taxa. Interactions may be termed ‘coercive’ and assumed to arise from conflict when male mating behaviours cause physical injury to females and females appear to resist injurious matings.How...

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Autores principales: Baruffaldi, Luciana, Andrade, Maydianne C. B.
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/PMC5725485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29229932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17524-6

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