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The evolution of polyandry II: post–copulatory defenses against genetic incompatibility
1997-01-22
Abstract excerpt
Fundamental to the recently–proposed hypothesis that females mate with more than one male as a hedge against genetic incompatibility is the premise that mechanisms are available to polyandrous females which enable them to safeguard their reproductive investment against the threat of incompatibility between maternal and paternal genomes. Accumulation of sperm from several males shifts the arena for sexual selection...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 18865c25-2165-5650-b0a0-64bbc1fc87a3
- DOI
- 10.1098/rspb.1997.0010