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Parental sex discrimination and intralocus sexual conflict.
Biology letters - 23 Oct 2009
Patten Manus M, Haig David
Abstract excerpt
Intralocus sexual conflict occurs when populations segregate for alleles with opposing fitness consequences in the two sexes. This form of selection is known to be capable of maintaining genetic and fitness variation in nature, the extent of which is sensitive to the underlying genetics. We present a one-locus model of a haploid maternal effect that has sexually antagonistic consequences for offspring. The...
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