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Temporal and genetic variation in female aggression after mating.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Bath Eleanor, Biscocho Edmund Ryan, Easton-Calabria August, Wigby Stuart
Abstract excerpt
Aggression between individuals of the same sex is almost ubiquitous across the animal kingdom. Winners of intrasexual contests often garner considerable fitness benefits, through greater access to mates, food, or social dominance. In females, aggression is often tightly linked to reproduction, with females displaying increases in aggressive behavior when mated, gestating or lactating, or when protecting dependent...
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