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Review
. 2000 Nov 21;97(24):12953-5.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.97.24.12953.

Dangerous liaisons

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Dangerous liaisons

W R Rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
The progression from lifelong monogamy (LM) to moderate levels of promiscuity (MP) to high levels of promiscuity (HP) reduces the correlation for fitness between mated pairs.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Intersexual antagonistic coevolution between interacting alleles at different loci.

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