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Sexual selection on population-level mating opportunities drives morph ratios in a fig wasp with extreme male dimorphism

BACKGROUND: Alternative mating tactics are widespread in animals and associated with extreme morphological polymorphism in some insects. Some fig wasps have both highly modified wingless males and dispersing winged males. Wingless males mate inside figs before females disperse, while winged males ma...

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Autor principal: Cook, James M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8422632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34488650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01898-3