The Bateman gradient and the cause of sexual selection in a sex-role-reversed pipefish

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1444, 2000, Pages 677-680

  Jones, Adam G ^a,d   Rosenqvist, Gunilla ^b   Berglund, Anders ^c   Arnold, Stevan J ^d   Avise, John C ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mating success; Microsatellites; Reproductive success; Sexual selection; Syngnathus typhle

Indexed keywords

FISH; SEX REVERSAL; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FISH; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; SYNGNATHUS TYPHLE;

EID: 0004103999     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1055     Document Type: Article

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