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Anisogamy explains why males benefit more from additional matings

Why do males typically compete more intensely for mating opportunities than do females and how does this relate to sex differences in gamete size? A new study provides a formal evolutionary link between gamete size dimorphism and ‘Bateman gradients’, which describe how much individuals of each sex b...

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Autores principales: Henshaw, Jonathan M., Jones, Adam G., Schärer, Lukas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9259586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35794148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31620-w