Polyandrous frogs

by | Feb 10, 2011 | Behaviour, Lab news, Sexual selection

African foam nesting frogs represent one of the most extreme examples of polyandry in a vertebrate and this is thought to be a fertility insurance mechanism. Our paper, just published online, shows that offspring from polyandrous matings had both significantly higher...

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