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
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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
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spelling pubmed-92595862022-07-08 Anisogamy explains why males benefit more from additional matings Henshaw, Jonathan M. Jones, Adam G. Schärer, Lukas Nat Commun Comment 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 benefit from additional matings. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9259586/ /pubmed/35794148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31620-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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