{"id":40646,"date":"2013-12-09T10:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T05:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.editage.cn\/insights\/research\/polyandry-among-animals-more-of-a-rule-than-exception"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:46:04","slug":"polyandry-among-animals-more-of-a-rule-than-exception-5011","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.cn\/insights\/polyandry-among-animals-more-of-a-rule-than-exception-5011\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyandry among animals\u2014more of a rule than exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Validating the recent finding that females in the animal kingdom are polyandrous, researchers have found that female fire salamanders mate with several males. What\u2019s novel about this discovery, however, is that this behavior was observed under natural conditions. Read more in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/mec.12577\/abstract;jsessionid=5F3A66A92FF92238F2DC17C0B069B797.f04t01\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Molecular Ecology<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">BA Caspers et al., <em>Molecular Ecology<\/em>, 2013. 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