Cryptic female choice: Frogs reduce clutch size when amplexed by undesired males

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1433, 1999, Pages 2101-2107

  Reyer, Heinz Ulrich ^a   Frei, Gerhard ^a   Som, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anurans; Clutch size adjustment; Cryptic female choice; External fertilization; Male male competition; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FROG; PATERNITY; SPERM SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FROG; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SPECIES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA ESCULENTA; RANA LESSONAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033595766     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0894     Document Type: Article

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