Article
No intra-locus sexual conflict over reproductive fitness or ageing in field crickets.
PloS one - 17 Jan 2007
Zajitschek Felix, Hunt John, Zajitschek Susanne R K, Jennions Michael D, Brooks Robert
Abstract excerpt
Differences in the ways in which males and females maximize evolutionary fitness can lead to intra-locus sexual conflict in which genes delivering fitness benefits to one sex are costly when expressed in the other. Trade-offs between current reproductive effort and future reproduction and survival are fundamental to the evolutionary biology of ageing. This leads to the prediction that sex differences in the...
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