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Deviation from lifetime monogamous mating creates sexual conflict, but different mating patterns create different patterns of conflict. All deviations from lifetime monogamy potentially create sexual conflict over how much a female invests in a given reproductive bout, but polyandrous matings (including EPP) are required for conflict over both matings and fertilization.
