Sexual selection, seminal coagulation and copulatory plug formation in primates

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 73, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 63-69

  Dixson, Alan F ^a   Anderson, Matthew J ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulatory plugs; Primates; Seminal coagulation; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; COPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COPULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SEMEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0036041263     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000064784     Document Type: Review

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