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SUBMITTER: Morimoto J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6336784 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morimoto Juliano J McDonald Grant C GC Smith Emelia E Smith Damian T DT Perry Jennifer C JC Chapman Tracey T Pizzari Tommaso T Wigby Stuart S
Nature communications 20190117 1
Polyandry prolongs sexual selection on males by forcing ejaculates to compete for fertilisation. Recent theory predicts that increasing polyandry may weaken pre-copulatory sexual selection on males and increase the relative importance of post-copulatory sexual selection, but experimental tests of this prediction are lacking. Here, we manipulate the polyandry levels in groups of Drosophila melanogaster by deletion of the female sex peptide receptor. We show that groups in which the sex-peptide-re ...[more]