Female fitness optimum at intermediate mating rates under traumatic mating.

Traumatic mating behaviors often bear signatures of sexual conflict and are then typically considered a male strategy to circumvent female choice mechanisms. In an extravagant mating ritual, the hermaphroditic sea slug Siphopteron quadrispinosum pierces the integument of their mating partners with a...

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Main Authors: Rolanda Lange, Tobias Gerlach, Joscha Beninde, Johanna Werminghausen, Verena Reichel, Nils Anthes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22937024/pdf/?tool=EBI