Sexual Selection and Evolution of the Seminal Vesicles in Primates

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 300-306

  Dixson, Alan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mating systems; Seminal vesicles; Sexual behaviour; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COPULATION; EJACULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EJACULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRIMATES; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTIS;

EID: 0031616127     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000021643     Document Type: Article

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