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A little of what you fancy does you no good

10-23-2006 · EurekAlert!

Hemiclonal analysis of Drosophila melanogaster reveals that high-fitness males produce low-fitness daughters and high-fitness mothers produce low-fitness sons, with implications for models of sexual selection.

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