Small rodents called voles have their own battles of the sexes over macho traits. And it turns out that dominant voles don’t always come out on top, which may explain one way a species maintains genetic diversity.
A female bank vole — a species with underlying genetic conflicts between the sexes — appears unreceptive to a male’s advances.
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