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Nonadaptive female pursuit of extrapair copulations can evolve through hitchhiking

Mounting evidence has indicated that engaging in extrapair copulations (EPCs) might be maladaptive or detrimental to females. It is unclear why such nonadaptive female behavior evolves. In this study, we test two hypotheses about the evolution of female EPC behavior using population genetic models....

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Autores principales: Lyu, Nan, Servedio, Maria R., Sun, Yue‐Hua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29686849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3915