Alternative reproductive tactics and the evolution of alternative allocation phenotypes
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Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) are part of a much larger class of alternative phenotypes that include sex allocation and alternative life histories. We examine the evolution of ARTs by drawing on the much larger base of theory from sex-allocation and life-history evolution. Insights into how alternative tactics evolve (their maintenance in populations, the evolution of their underlying mechanisms and flexibility, the evolution of morph differences and morph frequencies) are derived from principles developed for understanding the evolution of sex, sex determination, hermaphroditism, sexual dimorphism, and sex ratios.
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