Open AccessBet-hedging via polyandry: a comment on ‘Mating portfolios: bet-hedging, sexual selection and female multiple mating’
Author(s) -
Jonathan M. Henshaw,
Luke Holman
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.342
H-Index - 253
eISSN - 1471-2954
pISSN - 0962-8452
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.2015.0346
Subject(s) - mating , sexual selection , biology , selection (genetic algorithm) , evolutionary biology , zoology , computer science , artificial intelligence
Garcia-Gonzalez et al. [[1][1]] conducted an original and elegant experiment examining whether fertilization of a female's eggs by multiple males (polyandry) can provide fitness benefits via ‘bet-hedging’ (i.e. due to decreased variance in offspring fitness). The authors measured these benefits
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