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Costs and benefits of mating with fertilized females in a species with first male sperm precedence
Leonor R Rodrigues, Alexandre RT Figueiredo, Thomas Van Leeuwen…·Sara Magalhães
The paper examines mating costs and benefits in a spider mite species with first male sperm precedence, finding females pay a polyandry cost while second males gain relative benefits.
DOI 10.1101/386045