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Fitness consequences of threshold trait expression subject to environmental cues.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 27 Jun 2018
Michalczyk Łukasz, Dudziak Magdalena, Radwan Jacek, Tomkins Joseph L
Abstract excerpt
Most cases of alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) are thought to represent conditional strategies, whereby high-status males express highly competitive phenotypes, whereas males below a certain status threshold resort to sneaky tactics. The underlying evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) model assumes that males of high competitive ability achieve higher fitness when expressing the territorial phenotype,...
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