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Age-specific mating strategies and reproductive senescence.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2005
Richard M, Lecomte J, de Fraipont M, Clobert J
Abstract excerpt
While males gain obvious direct advantages from multiple mating, the reproductive capacity of females is more constrained. The reason why polyandry evolved in females is therefore open to many conjectures. One hypothesis postulates that females gain indirect benefits by increasing the probability of siring young from high quality males. To explore this hypothesis, we used the natural variation of the reproductive...
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