Men in menopause? Experimental verification of the mate choice theory with Drosophila melanogaster shows both sexes can undergo menopause

• Divya Purohith,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Mitali Chaudhary,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Alyssa Gomes,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Nina Rajapakse,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Aditi Das,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Neha Dhanvanthry,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9002-151X

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• Michelle Brown,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Manan Mukherjee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0662-7640

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• Rama S. Singh

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: singh@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5407-537X

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