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Toward an understanding of the chemical ecology of alternative reproductive tactics in the bulb mite (Rhizoglyphus robini).
BMC ecology and evolution - 8 Jan 2022
Zeeman Adam N, Smallegange Isabel M, Steel Emily Burdfield, Groot Astrid T, Stewart Kathryn A
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BACKGROUND: Under strong sexual selection, certain species evolve distinct intrasexual, alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs). In many cases, ARTs can be viewed as environmentally-cued threshold traits, such that ARTs coexist if their relative fitness alternates over the environmental cue gradient. Surprisingly, the chemical ecology of ARTs has been underexplored in this context. To our knowledge, no prior...
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