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Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system

Creator:

Friesen, Christopher R.

Abstract:

Postcopulatory sexual selection—sperm competition and cryptic female choice—has become a major area of research over the past 40 years. Within this field there are many outstanding questions at every level of analysis, from proximate to ultimate. The fitness consequences for both sexes in the period after copulation and before fertilization...

Resource Type:

Dissertation