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Intra-locus sexual conflict and sexually antagonistic genetic variation in hermaphroditic animals.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Jan 2011
Abbott Jessica K
Abstract excerpt
Intra-locus sexual conflict results when sex-specific selection pressures for a given trait act against the intra-sexual genetic correlation for that trait. It has been found in a wide variety of taxa in both laboratory and natural populations, but the importance of intra-locus sexual conflict and sexually antagonistic genetic variation in hermaphroditic organisms has rarely been considered. This is not so...
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