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Complex interactions with females and rival males limit the evolution of sperm offence and defence.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Jul 2007

Bjork Adam, Starmer William T, Higginson Dawn M, Rhodes Christopher J, Pitnick Scott

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Postcopulatory sexual selection favours males which are strong offensive and defensive sperm competitors. As a means of identifying component traits comprising each strategy, we used an experimental evolution approach. Separate populations of Drosophila melanogaster were selected for enhanced sperm offence and defence. Despite using a large outbred population and evidence of substantive genetic variation for each...

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PMID: 17507332
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0293
PMCID: PMC2493577

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