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Male Body Size Predicts Reproductive Success But Not Within-Clutch Paternity Patterns in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus).
The Journal of heredity - 31 Oct 2018
White K Nicole, Rothermel Betsie B, Zamudio Kelly R, Tuberville Tracey D
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In many vertebrates, body size is an important driver of variation in male reproductive success. Larger, more fit individuals are more likely to dominate mating opportunities, skewing siring success and resulting in lower effective population sizes and genetic diversity. The mating system of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) has been characterized as both female-defense and scramble-competition polygyny....
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