Condition-dependent female remating resistance generates sexual selection on male size in a ladybird beetle
Behavioural resistance to remating by females is common, but the causes and consequences of resistance are rarely explained. Prominent hypotheses include resistance as a means of avoiding costly and superfluous mating, or as a means of biasing mating towards high-quality males. In species in which m...
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Materialtyp: | Journal article |
Språk: | English |
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2009
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