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
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
The paradigm of competitive males vying to influence female mate choice has been repeatedly upheld, but, increasingly, studies also report competitive females and choosy males. One female trait that i
