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Sperm competition games: a prospective analysis of risk assessment

✍ Scribed by Parker, G. A.; Ball, M. A.; Stockley, P.; Gage, M. J. G.

Book ID
120140729
Publisher
The Royal Society
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
351 KB
Volume
264
Category
Article
ISSN
0080-4649

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We investigate game theory models of ejaculate expenditure by males in a species where there is a risk probability, q, that females will mate twice before laying a given set of eggs. With frequency 1-q females mate just once; then males optimally ejaculate an arbitrary minimum amount of sperm. The p