Post-copulatory sexual selection allows females to alleviate the fitness costs incurred when mating with senescing males

Male senescence has detrimental effects on reproductive success and offspring fitness. When females mate with multiple males during the same reproductive bout, post-copulatory sexual selection that operates either through sperm competition or cryptic female choice might allow females to skew fertili...

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Published in:Proc Biol Sci
Main Authors: Vuarin, Pauline, Bouchard, Alice, Lesobre, Loïc, Levêque, Gwènaëlle, Chalah, Toni, Jalme, Michel Saint, Lacroix, Frédéric, Hingrat, Yves, Sorci, Gabriele
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2019
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Evolution
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834038/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31640511
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1675
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