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Genetic conflict between sexual signalling and juvenile survival in the three-spined stickleback.
BMC evolutionary biology - 29 Feb 2016
Kim Sin-Yeon, Velando Alberto
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Secondary sexual traits and mating preferences may evolve in part because the offspring of attractive males inherit attractiveness and other genetically correlated traits such as fecundity and viability. A problem regarding these indirect genetic mechanisms is how sufficient genetic variation in the traits subject to sexual selection is maintained within a population. Here we explored the additive...
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