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Do males pay for sex? Sex-specific selection coefficients suggest not.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2017
Prokop Zofia M, Prus Monika A, Gaczorek Tomasz S, Sychta Karolina, Palka Joanna K, Plesnar-Bielak Agata, Skarboń Magdalena
Abstract excerpt
Selection acting on males can reduce mutation load of sexual relative to asexual populations, thus mitigating the twofold cost of sex, provided that it seeks and destroys the same mutations as selection acting on females, but with higher efficiency. This could happen due to sexual selection-a potent evolutionary force that in most systems predominantly affects males. We used replicate populations of red flour...
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