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SUBMITTER: Levine BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7657906 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Levine Brenna A BA Schuett Gordon W GW Clark Rulon W RW Repp Roger A RA Herrmann Hans-Werner HW Booth Warren W
Royal Society open science 20201007 10
Decades of research on sexual selection have demonstrated that 'conventional' Darwinian sex roles are common in species with anisogamous gametes, with those species often exhibiting male-biased sexual selection. Yet, mating system characteristics such as long-term sperm storage and polyandry have the capacity to disrupt this pattern. Here, these ideas were explored by quantifying sexual selection metrics for the western diamond-backed rattlesnake (<i>Crotalus atrox</i>). A significant standardiz ...[more]