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Abstract
How is sexual conflict during reproduction resolved when parents collaborate to rear offspring? A new study shows that female burying beetles communicate their hormonal status to their male partners to avoid costly superfluous mating, using an anti-aphrodisiac pheromone.Mesh:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27269728 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.052
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN: 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834