No intra-locus sexual conflict over reproductive fitness or ageing in field crickets.

Differences in the ways in which males and females maximize evolutionary fitness can lead to intra-locus sexual conflict in which genes delivering fitness benefits to one sex are costly when expressed in the other. Trade-offs between current reproductive effort and future reproduction and survival a...

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Main Authors: Felix Zajitschek, John Hunt, Susanne R K Zajitschek, Michael D Jennions, Robert Brooks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1764717?pdf=render