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Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) occur when members of the same sex within a species are dimorphic for reproductive phenotypes. ARTs typically evolve in response to strong sexual selection and involve alternate ways to gain reproductive success through suites of correlate…

Stress affects virtually all organisms and can result in both physiological and behavioral changes. Conditioned defeat in Syrian hamsters is a model of stress-induced behavioral plasticity that occurs in a social context. In this model, hamsters are defeated by a larger, more ag…