Directional postcopulatory sexual selection revealed by artificial insemination

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6921, 2003, Pages 360-363

  Evans, Jonathan P ^a   Zane, Lorenzo ^a   Francescato, Samuela ^a   Pilastro, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; BODY FLUIDS; GROWTH KINETICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

BODY SHAPE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FISH; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BODY GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FISH; MALE; MATING; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LITTER SIZE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POECILIA; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037461710     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01367     Document Type: Article

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