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Biting off more than you can chew: sexual selection on the free amino acid composition of the spermatophylax in decorated crickets

Nuptial food gifts function to enhance male fertilization success, but their consumption is not always beneficial to females. In decorated crickets, the spermatophore transferred at mating includes a gelatinous mass, the spermatophylax, which is consumed by females after mating. However, females oft...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Gershman, Susan N., Mitchell, Christopher, Sakaluk, Scott K., Hunt, John
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: The Royal Society 2012
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350693/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22357263
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.2592
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