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Sexually antagonistic coevolution in a mating system: combining experimental and comparative approaches to address evolutionary processes.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2002
Rowe Locke, Arnqvist Göran
Abstract excerpt
We combined experimental and comparative techniques to study the evolution of mating behaviors within in a clade of 15 water striders (Gerris spp.). Superfluous multiple mating is costly to females in this group, and consequently there is overt conflict between the sexes over mating. Two alternative hypotheses that could generate interspecific variation in mating behaviors are tested: interspecific variation in...
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