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Sexual antagonism in haplodiploids.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2022
Hitchcock Thomas J, Gardner Andy, Ross Laura
Abstract excerpt
Females and males may face different selection pressures, such that alleles conferring a benefit in one sex may be deleterious in the other. Such sexual antagonism has received a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention, almost all of which has focused on diploids. However, a sizeable minority of animals display an alternative haplodiploid mode of inheritance, encompassing both arrhenotoky, whereby males...
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