The richness, frequency and relatedness components of mate diversity and mate portfolios.

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Sexual reproduction produces genetically diverse families, especially when individuals mate with multiple partners. During mating, an individual accumulates a mate portfolio, the diversity of which depends on the number of mates, their relative mating contributions and characteristics. Nevertheless, studies of mate diversity generally focus on mate number or correlated mating, the probability that pairs of...

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