Genome-Wide Responses of Female Fruit Flies Subjected to Divergent Mating Regimes.

Elevated rates of mating and reproduction cause decreased female survival and lifetime reproductive success across a wide range of taxa from flies to humans. These costs are fundamentally important to the evolution of life histories. Here we investigate the potential mechanistic basis of this classi...

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Main Authors: Dave T Gerrard, Claudia Fricke, Dominic A Edward, Dylan R Edwards, Tracey Chapman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3694895?pdf=render