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Hox genes mediate the escalation of sexually antagonistic traits in water striders

Sexual conflict occurs when traits favoured in one sex impose fitness costs on the other sex. In the case of sexual conflict over mating rate, the sexes often undergo antagonistic coevolution and escalation of traits that enhance females' resistance to superfluous mating and traits that increas...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Crumière, Antonin Jean Johan, Khila, Abderrahman
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6405465/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30958129
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0720
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