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Researchers test whether Red Queen hypothesis makes species resilient


May 20, 2014

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Deanna Soper, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Iowa Department of Biology and currently visiting assistant professor at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., and her colleagues addressed whether a particular prediction of the Red Queen hypothesis was met: That exposure to parasites increases multiple mating in New Zealand freshwater snails.Full Story

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