Multiple paternity is relatively common across diverse taxa; however, the drivers and implications related to paternal and maternal fitness are not well understood. Several hypotheses have been offere
In many vertebrates, body size is an important driver of variation in male reproductive success. Larger, more fit individuals are more likely to dominate mating opportunities, skewing siring success a
Additional file 3. Movie S3. Behavioural instances that could possibly represent cases of hypodermic insemination. Note that the movies are recorded at one frame per second, but played back at a rate
Being inbred, refers to the offspring of parents that inbreed, characterized by mating between closely related individuals, and often results in reduced genetic diversity and increased expression of d
