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Male competition and the evolution of mating and life history traits in experimental populations of <i>Aedes aegypti</i>

2019-04-26

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Aedes aegypti is an important disease vector and a major target of reproductive control efforts. We manipulated the opportunity for sexual selection in populations of Ae. aegypti by controlling the number of males competing for a single female. Populations exposed to higher levels of male competition rapidly evolved higher male competitive mating success relative to populations evolved in the absence of competiti...

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Literature Corpus work: dafea76d-6bd6-5d78-9f11-bd185ad73752
DOI: 10.1101/619072

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