Adaptive control of copulation duration
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Yukio Yasui
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Article
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1994
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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In a manure-inhabiting predator)' mite, Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Gamasida, Macrochelidae), when the female mates with two males, the first male takes nearly perfect fertilization priority (Yasui, 1988). The present study examined whether the first-male's sperm precedence is influenced by the co