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An empirical test of the bet‐hedging polyandry hypothesis: Female red flour beetles avoid extinction via multiple mating

Bet‐hedging via polyandry (spreading the extinction risk of the female's lineage over multiple males) may explain the evolution of female multiple mating, which is found in a wide range of animal and plant taxa. This hypothesis posits that females can increase their fitness via polyandrous mati...

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Autores principales: Matsumura, Kentarou, Miyatake, Takahisa, Yasui, Yukio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8131809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34026007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7418