Male-mimicking females increase male-male interactions, and decrease male survival and condition in a female-polymorphic damselfly.

doi:10.1111/evo.13221

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Male-mimicking females increase male-male interactions, and decrease male survival and condition in a female-polymorphic damselfly.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2017

Gering Eben J

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Biologists are still discovering diverse and powerful ways sexual conflicts shape biodiversity. The present study examines how the proportion of females in a population that exhibit male mimicry, a mating resistance trait, influences conspecific males' behavior, condition, and survival. Like most female-polymorphic damselflies, Ischnura ramburii harbors both "andromorph" females, which closely resemble males, and...

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Animals
Female
Male
Odonata
Phenotype
Population Density
Reproduction
Sexual Behavior, Animal

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PMID: 28257566
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13221

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