Female extra-pair mating: adaptation or genetic constraint?

2014/06/06 by Wolfgang Forstmeier, Shinichi Nakagawa, Simon C. Griffith +1 · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Adaptation (eye) #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Assortative mating #Biology #Constraint (computer-aided design) #Ecology #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Evolutionary biology #Evolutionary ecology #Mate choice #Mating #Mating system #Neuroscience #Plant and animal studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.05.005

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