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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...
Autores principales: | Scott, Catherine E., McCann, Sean, Andrade, Maydianne C. B. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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