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Evidence for female-biased dispersal in the protandrous hermaphroditic Asian Seabass, Lates calcarifer.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Yue Gen Hua, Xia Jun Hong, Liu Feng, Lin Grace
Abstract excerpt
Movement of individuals influences individual reproductive success, fitness, genetic diversity and relationships among individuals within populations and gene exchange among populations. Competition between males or females for mating opportunities and/or local resources predicts a female bias in taxa with monogamous mating systems and a male-biased dispersal in polygynous species. In birds and mammals, the...
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