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Have female twisted-wing parasites (Insecta: Strepsiptera) evolved tolerance traits as response to traumatic penetration?

Traumatic insemination describes an unusual form of mating during which a male penetrates the body wall of its female partner to inject sperm. Females unable to prevent traumatic insemination have been predicted to develop either traits of tolerance or of resistance, both reducing the fitness costs...

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Autores principales: Jandausch, Kenny, Michels, Jan, Kovalev, Alexander, Gorb, Stanislav N., van de Kamp, Thomas, Beutel, Rolf Georg, Niehuis, Oliver, Pohl, Hans
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9390352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35990910
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13655