La endogamia promueve la promiscuidad femenina

Łukasz Michalczyk1, Anna L Millard, Oliver Y Martin

  • 1School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 24, 2011
PubMed
Resumen

La poliandria, el apareamiento con múltiples machos, beneficia a las hembras al aumentar la aptitud reproductiva, especialmente cuando la endogamia pone en riesgo la fertilización por genes incompatibles. Esta estrategia de apareamiento evoluciona cuando los cuellos de botella genéticos aumentan estos riesgos.

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