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This implies that mating types will have a smaller chance of finding a suitable mating partner than in a homogeneous population, since they are unable to mate within their clone, while the undifferentiated gamete type has no reduced opportunity for mating, although most matings will be intra-clonal.

The alternative genetic variants that do not favour P1 × P1 matings will be more often present in the progenies of P1 × P2 matings, which have lower fitness.

For A1A1 × A1A1 and A2A2 × A2A2 matings will produce no heterozygotes; and only half the progeny of A1A2 × A1A2 matings will be heterozygotic.

The offspring of such matings will be heterozygous and thus functionally susceptible to a high-dose of Bt toxin (Gould 1998).

By enforcing a delay between matings, the refractory period may also increase the likelihood that successive matings will be with different hermaphrodites, helping to maximize the number and diversity of offspring.

Second, if males that have mated with the same female share one or more alleles, then it is not possible to detect all possible partners, and the evaluation of the minimum number of matings will be underestimated (yielding a conservative estimate).

Furthermore, in the case of matched parents, all sib-matings will be matched.

Associated with this, conflict over mating will be more intense, and females will be under greater pressure to resist more frequent superfluous matings.

Fertilization success for the male M is clearly not repeatable across these matings (fertilization success will be 0.51 when mated to female A, and 0.99 when mating with female B).

With respect to the last point, it is well known that every methodology pretending to use non-additive effects [ 6- 8] must contemplate two types of mating: a) matings from which the population will be propagated; b) matings to obtain commercial animals.

As males are ready to mate about 30 days after the end of hibernation [12], many will be seeking matings while some females are still hibernating.