New paper showing sexual conflict over mating duration!

Our new paper, led by Isabella Martinez, has been published today in Animal Behaviour. We used hemiclonal analysis to sample naturally occurring variation in male mating duration and measure the fitness consequences of prolonged matings for both males and females. We found that longer matings resulted in a paternity advantage for males, but lowered the total number of offspring produced by females, indicating sexual conflict over this behavior. 
Read Barnard's coverage of this work here.