Sperm selection and genetic incompatibility: Does relatedness of mates affect male success in sperm competition?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1429, 1999, Pages 1663-1669

  Stockley, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crickets; Cryptic female choice; Fertilization success; Gryllodes supplicans; Inbreeding

Indexed keywords

INSECT; RELATEDNESS; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERM SELECTION;

ARTICLE; COPULATION; FERTILIZATION; FITNESS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; INBREEDING; INSECT; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIBLING; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLODES; GRYLLODES SUPPLICANS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0033595336     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0829     Document Type: Article

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