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A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'
The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'
The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'
Tar Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean 1972
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In recent years, a number of studies have brought attention to postmating prezygotic barriers arising from male - male competition and male - female interactions.
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A third of candidate genes within these two loci are located in the 89B cytogenetic position, highlighting a possible major role for this chromosome position during the evolution of species specific adaptations to postmating prezygotic reproductive challenges.
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Yet little is known about the genetic basis of postmating prezygotic isolation barriers between species.
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Here, we utilize proteomics, RNAi, mating experiments, and the Allonemobius socius complex of crickets, whose members are primarily isolated from one another by postmating, prezygotic phenotypes
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Although these phenotypes and their resulting dynamics are important, we have little understanding of the proteins that mediate these phenotypes, particularly for species groups where postmating, prezygotic traits are the primary mechanism of reproductive isolation.
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So are they hypothesizing that it is the males 'bigness and strongness that hurt their postmating reproductive success?
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These findings represent one of the first studies to identify a protein that plays a role in mediating both a postmating, prezygotic isolation pathway and reproductive senescence.
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