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The disposable male— the ultimate emancipation of females?
Sexual reproduction is costly compared to asexual reproduction, in particular because males generally contribute little to offspring. Research published today in BMC Biology shows that some populations of a termite species have disposed of males altogether. However, this need not necessarily be seen...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6154933/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30249271 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0574-8 |
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| author | Aanen, Duur K. |
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| description | Sexual reproduction is costly compared to asexual reproduction, in particular because males generally contribute little to offspring. Research published today in BMC Biology shows that some populations of a termite species have disposed of males altogether. However, this need not necessarily be seen as a victory for the females, since males in most termite societies are active colony members that contribute their fair share to colony tasks. |
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| spelling | pubmed-61549332018-09-26 The disposable male— the ultimate emancipation of females? Aanen, Duur K. BMC Biol Commentary Sexual reproduction is costly compared to asexual reproduction, in particular because males generally contribute little to offspring. Research published today in BMC Biology shows that some populations of a termite species have disposed of males altogether. However, this need not necessarily be seen as a victory for the females, since males in most termite societies are active colony members that contribute their fair share to colony tasks. BioMed Central 2018-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6154933/ /pubmed/30249271 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0574-8 Text en © Aanen et al. 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| spellingShingle | Commentary Aanen, Duur K. The disposable male— the ultimate emancipation of females? |
| title | The disposable male— the ultimate emancipation of females? |
| title_full | The disposable male— the ultimate emancipation of females? |
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| title_short | The disposable male— the ultimate emancipation of females? |
| title_sort | disposable male— the ultimate emancipation of females? |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6154933/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30249271 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0574-8 |
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