Males' evolutionary responses to experimental removal of sexual selection

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1471, 2001, Pages 1071-1080

  Pitnick, S ^a   Miller, G T ^a   Reagan, J ^a   Holland, B ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Drosophila; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MONOGAMY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS SIZE;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE;

EID: 0035932892     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1621     Document Type: Article

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