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Pre and Post-copulatory Selection Favor Similar Genital Phenotypes in the Male Broad Horned Beetle.
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Oct 2016
House Clarissa M, Sharma M D, Okada Kensuke, Hosken David J
Abstract excerpt
Sexual selection can operate before and after copulation and the same or different trait(s) can be targeted during these episodes of selection. The direction and form of sexual selection imposed on characters prior to mating has been relatively well described, but the same is not true after copulation. In general, when male-male competition and female choice favor the same traits then there is the expectation of...
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