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Reduction of female copulatory damage by resilin represents evidence for tolerance in sexual conflict.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface - 6 Mar 2015
Michels Jan, Gorb Stanislav N, Reinhardt Klaus
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Intergenomic evolutionary conflicts increase biological diversity. In sexual conflict, female defence against males is generally assumed to be resistance, which, however, often leads to trait exaggeration but not diversification. Here, we address whether tolerance, a female defence mechanism known from interspecific conflicts, exists in sexual conflict. We examined the traumatic insemination of female bed bugs...
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