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Quantifying the costs of pre‐ and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort

Although it is widely stated that both mating behavior and sperm traits are energetically costly for males, we currently lack empirical estimates of the relative costs to males of pre‐ versus postcopulatory investments. Such estimates require the experimental separation of the act of mating from tha...

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Autores principales: Chung, Meng‐Han Joseph, Jennions, Michael D., Fox, Rebecca J.
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/PMC8327938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evl3.228