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Black widows as plastic wallflowers: female choosiness increases with indicators of high mate availability in a natural population

Female choice is an important driver of sexual selection, but can be costly, particularly when choosy females risk remaining unmated or experience delays to reproduction. Thus, females should reduce choosiness when mate encounter rates are low. We asked whether choosiness is affected by social conte...

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Autores principales: Scott, Catherine E., McCann, Sean, Andrade, Maydianne C. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32488193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65985-z