A mortality cost of virginity at older ages in female Mediterranean fruit flies
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A mortality cost of virginity at older ages in female Mediterranean fruit flies.
Mortality rates were measured over the lifetime of 65,000 female Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata, maintained in either all-female (virgin) cages or cages with equal initial numbers of males, to determine the effect of sexual activity and mating on the mortality trajectory of females at older ages. Although a greater fraction of females maintained in all-female (virgin) cages survi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Experimental Gerontology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0531-5565
DOI: 10.1016/s0531-5565(01)00230-3