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The battle of the sexes over seed size: support for both kinship genomic imprinting and interlocus contest evolution.
The American naturalist - 1 Jun 2013
Willi Yvonne
Abstract excerpt
Outcrossing creates a venue for parental conflict. When one sex provides parental care to offspring fertilized by several partners, the nonproviding sex is under selection to maximally exploit the caring sex. The caring sex may counteradapt, and a coevolutionary arms race ensues. Genetic models of this conflict include the kinship theory of genomic imprinting (parent-of-origin-specific expression of maternal-care...
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