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Male killing can select for male mate choice: a novel solution to the paradox of the lek.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 May 2000

Randerson J P, Jiggins F M, Hurst L D

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In lekking species, intense directional selection is applied to aspects of the male genotype by female choice. Under conventional quantitative genetics theory, the expectation is that this will lead to a rapid loss in additive genetic variance for the trait in question. However, despite female choice, male variation is maintained and hence it pays females to continue choosing. This has been termed the 'paradox of...

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PMID: 10853728
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1083
PMCID: PMC1690614

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