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Variation in social organization influences the opportunity for sexual selection in a social lizard.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2011
While Geoffrey M, Uller Tobias, Wapstra Erik
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Social monogamy has traditionally been suggested to be maintained because of weak sexual selection on male partner acquisition. However, the ubiquitous incidence of extra-pair paternity suggests that sexual selection can be strong in monogamous systems, although studies partitioning variance in male reproductive success have come to mixed conclusions. Here, we use detailed field data to examine variance in male...
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