Timing the initiation of sex: Delay mechanisms alter fitness outcomes in a rotifer population model.

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Species that inhabit variable environments have complex mechanisms to precisely time their life-history transitions as conditions change. One such mechanism in rotifers is a block on sexual reproduction that extends across multiple asexual generations after emergence from diapause. It has been hypothesized that this delay is advantageous in competitive and stochastic environments. Here, we develop a model of...

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