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A potential resolution to the lek paradox through indirect genetic effects.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 May 2007

Miller Christine W, Moore Allen J

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Females often prefer males with elaborate traits, even when they receive no direct benefits from their choice. In such situations, mate discrimination presumably has genetic advantages; selective females will produce offspring of higher genetic quality. Over time, persistent female preferences for elaborate secondary-sexual traits in males should erode genetic variance in these traits, eventually eliminating any...

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PMID: 17341455
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0413
PMCID: PMC2176171

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