Inbreeding makes female beetles frisky

Friday, September 23, 2011 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

What drives a female to sleep around? For red flour beetles, too much inbreeding may do the trick, according to new research showing that when populations of the beetles become inbred, females get frisky.

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