The effects of perceived mating opportunities on patterns of reproductive investment by male guppies.

The effects of perceived mating opportunities on patterns of reproductive investment by male guppies.

Males pay considerable reproductive costs in acquiring mates (precopulatory sexual selection) and in producing ejaculates that are effective at fertilising eggs in the presence of competing ejaculates (postcopulatory sexual selection). Given these costs, males must balance their reproductive investm...

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Main Authors: Luke T Barrett, Jonathan P Evans, Clelia Gasparini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3976321?pdf=render

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