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No support for the sexy‐sperm hypothesis in the seed beetle: Sons of monandrous females fare better in post‐copulatory competition

The sexy‐sperm hypothesis posits that polyandrous females derive an indirect fitness benefit from multi‐male mating because they increase the probability their eggs are fertilized by males whose sperm have high fertilizing efficiency, which is assumed to be heritable and conferred on their sons. How...

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Autor principal: Hook, Kristin A.
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/PMC6303747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30598772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4626

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