Sexual conflict over mating and fertilization: an overview.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on February 28, 2006

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G A Parker1

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1: Population and Evolutionary Biology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GS, UK. gap@liv.ac.uk

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